Conservation News ~ 11 June 2021

• DNA toolkits protect endangered species from illegal trafficking
• Lesser Prairie-Chicken Faces Re-Listing Under the Endangered Species Act
• 2 North Carolina Animals Added to 'Endangered Species' List
• 2 new species of Himalayan gigantic woolly flying squirrels discovered
• In Gabon, a new partnership for sharks and rays announced on World Ocean Day
• NGOs back Maldives’ ambitious plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna
• In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares
• Indonesia to retire coal-fired power plants while also adding more
• Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad
• 'Zombie frog' discovered: 3 new species described from the narrow-mouthed frog family
• ‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader
• New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea
• As U.K. eyes new environmental rules, some firms want to pump the brakes
• Indonesia’s biodiesel program fuels deforestation threat, report warns
• For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism
• Chinese banks pouring billions into deforestation-linked firms, report says
• The secret bears of Bolivia’s lost dry forests
• No oil spill reported, but Sri Lanka braces for worst after X-Press Pearl sinks
• Brazil ‘Adopt-a-Park’ program may negatively impact traditional peoples
• Griffon Vultures are breeding in Morocco after 40-year absence’
• "Keystone XL Pipeline Developer Pulls Plug On Controversial Project"
• "EPA to Rewrite Trump-Era Waters Rule That Boosted Builders"
• B.C. Agrees To Defer Old-Growth Logging For 2 Years In Fairy Creek Area
• IG: Park Police Didn’t Clear Lafayette Square Protesters For Trump Visit
• "Vale's Decomissioned Brazil Dam At Risk Of Collapse, Labor Body Says"
• Red States Warn of ‘Collusive’ Tactics by Biden in Kids' Climate Case
• US-Funded Study Of Whale Hearing Going Ahead Despite Concerns For Whales
• After Exposé, Oregon House Moves To Curb Forest Institute’s Power, Budget
• Hook To Plate: Blockchain Tech Could Turn Tide For Sustainable Fishing
• "In Mexico, Dive Tourism Is Worth as Much as Fishing"
• Infrastructure Talks With Capito Collapse, As Biden Shifts Strategy
• Alaska Native Corp. To Protect Its Land, Deals Blow To Pebble Mine
• Amid Mega-Drought, Rightwing Militia Stokes Water Rebellion in West
• ‘Birds Are Here For Everyone’: Black Birdwatchers Finding A Community
• Canada Launches C$647 Million Bid To Avert Pacific Wild Salmon Collapse
• GOPers Grill Biden Public Lands Agency Pick Over Finances, Advocacy
• "A Million Years of Data Confirms: Monsoons Are Likely to Get Worse"
• "Will the U.S. Ban PFAS in Food Packaging?"
• "Texas Governor Says Power Grid Fixed; Experts Cite Problems"
• "California Sea Lions Face 'Unprecedented Rate Of Cancer'"
• Panama expands the limits of the Coiba protected area
• Two new species of cat-size flying squirrel discovered in the Himalaya
• Slash-and-burn clearing nears Indigenous park as Brazil’s fire season ignites
• Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary
• Big bioacoustics boost: Cornell University program receives $24 million donation
• ‘Conservation litigation’ tries to put a true price on wildlife crime
• Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data
• Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau document COVID-19 victory with new video
• IUCN: World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
• Developer Abandons Keystone XL pipeline
• 1st Gray Wolf pup since 1940s spotted in Colorado
• Battle to save Spains wolves as threatened species named protected wild animal
• Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years
• Umatilla Tribes lead the way in reacquisition of treaty lands
• Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form
• Scientists discover new species – Chocolate Frog
• Biden administration suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Maryland has officially become the 8th state to ban wildlife killing contests
• Florida Panther mom uses wildlife crossing under i-75 to move three kittens to refuge
• An almost complete extinct dwarf emu egg found on King Island
• Back from the Brink: Iberian Lync population rises to over 1,000
• Giant tortoise found in Galapagos a species considered extinct a century ago