Conservation News ~ 13 March 2020

• Arizona Gov signs bill cloaking endangered species info
• Egypt launches project to plant mangrove trees along Red Sea coast
• Canadian doctors link fracked natural gas to cancer and birth defects
• Jaguar population rises in Igazu Falls region
• In Afghanistan, a new national park carries hopes for conservation and peace
• Remote South American kelp forests surveyed for first time since 1973
• Discovery of smallest known Mesozoic dinosaur reveals new species in bird evolution
• A possible end to ‘forever’ chemicals
• Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports
• Poachers kill two rare white giraffes
• Record-high global tree cover loss driven by agriculture
• Mild winter spurs bears to emerge from hibernation earlier
• Chance encounter gives SF Zoo rare glimpse of a bald eagle it released 20 years ago
• New EU rules could spell end of throwaway culture
• New bug species named after Lady Gaga due to its wacky fashion sense
• Brazil issues fewest number of environment fines in 24 years
• Man held at Saigon airport with six kg of rhino horns
• White House expected to seek aid for shale companies hit by oil rout
• Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest
• SeaWorld loss doubles after $32M legal bill
• Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant
• Oil firm Shell to end its relationship with BFI and Southbank Centre
• Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry
• N$300M boost for Namibian conservation efforts
• New species of Pitcher Plant discovered in Philippines
• Palau changes ocean sanctuary plan to allow Japan fishing
• Yoshi the turtle reaches Australia in record-breaking swim
• Mexico is literally destroying protected mangrove trees to build an $8billion oil refinery
• Coronavirus epicenter Hubei bans the eating of wild animals completely
• Eighty-six dolphins found dead on remote Namibian beach
• France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories
• Florida senate just passed the largest shark fin ban in the US
• Aldi CEO tells suppliers: 100% recyclable or compostable packaging is non-negotiable
• Supreme Court to hear White House’s appeal about Endangered Species report
• Endangered species found on Hong Kong supermarket shelves
• Changes to NEPA could impact our public lands
• Virginia lawmakers send historic energy bill to governor
• Predators disproportionately impacted by human land use changes
• Climate change threatens relationship between polar bears and ringed seals
• New locust swarms forming in Somalia and Kenya – swarms hitting 20 countries
• Climate change boosted Australia fire risk by 30%
• Arctic ocean found teeming with new form of chlamydia
• Hundreds of critically endangered Giant Sea Bass being released in ocean
• Pesticides impair the brain development of baby bees
• Kern County violating law by rubberstamping oil drilling
• Oat milk sales spike by 686 percent in 2019
• Fish wearing ‘marine skin’ sensors collect information 6,500 feet below the sea
• Despite everything, US emissions dropped in 2019
• Oakland just banned exotic animals in entertainment
• Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel flying empty ghost planes
• Lehr discovers new lizard genus in Peruvian Andes
• Oregon anti-environment group is awash in racism and violent threats
• Public lands give refuge to endangered species
• San Antonio Zoo successfully breeds one of world’s most endangered species
• California orders permanent shutdown of oil drilling site near USC
• US Coal use is plunging at fastest rate since Eisenhower era
• New Right Whale protection measures announced by Canadian government