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Conservation News ~ 10 April 2020

4/10/2020

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  • Florida dairy farmers forced to dump excess milk
  • Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon
  • China just upgraded the status of dogs from ‘livestock’ to ‘pets’
  • Amid pandemic, whales enjoy human absence in Mediterranean
  • Poachers kill more rhinos as coronavirus halts tourism to Africa
  • 70,000 sea turtles nested on beaches emptied by COVID-19
  • SeaWorld offered $250,000 to release marine animals to sanctuaries
  • 17 months’ jail for man caught at Changi Airport with 11 pieces of rhinoceros horns
  • 66 US lawmakers demand global wet market ban to stop pandemics
  • New Jersey confers strict water protections on 600 miles of waterways
  • Savannah, Goergia, commits to 100% green energy by 2050
  • Race to save rare California frog beats coronavirus lockdown
  • African swine fever outbreak reported in western Poland
  • Lobster digestion of microplastics could further foul the food chain
  • Sceintists spot giant ocean creature that looks like silly string hunting in galaxy-like spiral
  • Lawsuit targets grazing damage to Arizona’s San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
  • New fossil from Brazil hints at the origins of the mysterious tansystropheid reptiles
  • Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours
  • Monarch butterfly gets protection in ‘historic’ deal
  • 84 percent of Americans unaware COVID-19 came from wet animal markets
  • New Harvard study links COVID deaths and air pollution
  • Eastern Tiger Salamanders, once nearly gone from Maryland, make a comeback
  • Blue Macaws help grow the forest around them
  • Wildlife Services killed four endangered Mexican Gray Wolves in late March
  • New EPA rules will increase air pollution as the world suffers a respiratory pandemic
  • Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon
  • In Sri Lanka, gillnets targeting tuna claim dolphin lives
  • A wave-powered ferry aims to forge a new path for shipping in the Philippines
  • Report links top tuna company to forced labor
  • Canada’s Belo Sun hits legal hurdles in bid to mine indigenous land in Brazil
  • White House finalizes car rule as handout to fossil fuel industry
  • Beyond Meat ton donate more than one million vegan burgers to COVID frontline workers
  • Doctor Fauci demands global shutdown of wet markets
  • Malaysian authorities seize record 6 tons of African pangolin scales
  • 225 doctors fight to shut down live animal markets
  • New jumping spider species discovered in Chennai’s MCC
  • Two new sea star species discovered in Philippines
  • After 5 months on the job, SeaWorld CEO resigns
  • Indigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to government’s racist invective
  • With zoo closed to visitors, pandas finally bang after 10 years
  • Oregon forests remain open for logging and timber sales during COVID
  • On a mega reserve in Laos, rescued Moon Bears find a new home
  • Climate crisis may have pushed world’s tropical coral reefs to tipping point of near annual bleaching
  • Standoff over Philippine’s Didipio mines escalates despite COVID
  • Court reinstates limits on potent climate-polluting refrigerants
  • The world’s largest sea turtle emerges from ocean and leaves everyone open mouthed
  • Nigerian National Park boss says we must have behavioural change towards wildlife
  • Hundreds of conservation experts join forces to pressure WHO to force live animal markets to close
  • US to let nuclear plants defer repairs, schedule longer shifts
  • UN biodiversity chief argues for a permanent ban on wildlife markets
  • Oil companies are collapsing but wind and solar energy keep growing
  • Fossil teeth yield oldest genetic material from extinct human species
  • New species of Pterosaur discovered in Morocco
  • Lawsuit launched against White House for failing to protect Nassau Grouper habitat
  • Bomb tests reveal true age of world’s largest fish
  • Amazon land activitst shot dead in Brazil
  • Bronx Tiger tests positive for COVID
  • Commodity markets rumble as COVID spreads
  • University of Hawaii botanist who died of coronavirus will be sorely missed
  • Under cover of pandemic, fossil fuel interests unleash lobbying frenzy
  • Newfound fish species floats like a butterfly, looks like a panda
  • IUCN welcomes Cambodia as a state member
  • Prickly pears are suddenly a hot crop in South Africa
  • Botswana kills five suspected poachers in effort to save rhinos
  • Endangered wild dogs snapped in South Sudan
  • 10 years to save world’s most threatened sea turtle
  • COVID disrupts a major year of biodiversity planning and policy
  • Palm oil gains ground in Chiapas, Mexico
  • Nigeria declares new conservation zone for most threatened chimpanzee
  • Right Whale calving season ends of Florida with 10 births
  • The ocean can be restored to former glory within 30 years
  • Monkey teeth fossils hint several extinct species crossed the Atlantic
  • New fossil names after Lord of the Rings character is related to mysterious reptile
  • In major ruling for Right Whales, federal judge rules that regulators violated Endangered Species Act
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