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Conservation News ~ 14 August 2020

8/14/2020

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  • Tour companies kicked out of the Mara
  • Large blue butterfly flutters in Cotswolds for first time in 150 years
  • Green financiers still support Amazon beef industry
  • Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs
  • Satellite record gives unprecedented view of Antarctic ice shelf melt pattern over 25 years
  • Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting
  • Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean
  • Cincinnati lawyer bought a $3k tiger skin rug in violation of the Endangered Species Act
  • Cameroon cncels logging plan that threatens rare apes
  • Mutations may have saved brown howler monkeys from yellow fever virus
  • Chain catshark flows using a process previously unknown to science
  • UK tofu sales skyrocket by 82 percent during COVID lockdown
  • Almost all oil removed from wrecked Mauritius ship’Inmate fire crew saves largest oak in North America
  • Big investors to trial net zero tools to decarbonize their protfolios
  • Novel 3d printed reef tiles to repopulate coral communities
  • 8 Dead after attack in a wildlife reserve in Niger
  • Protestors block logging road near Port Renfrew
  • US Reps call on Interior Secretary to cancel Utah oil and gas lease sale
  • New Hydrogen-powered hyper car has a 1k mile range
  • Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation
  • Florida Grasshopper Sparrows sing a hopeful song for the first time in decades
  • New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight
  • Mongabay team wins top environmental journalism prizes
  • Europe’s earliest bone tools found in Britain
  • Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching
  • Cherokee Nation launches 68th Cherokee National Holiday website
  • Sharks contaminated with plastics are cause for concern
  • New York City was on the verge of tackling its trash problem, then COVID hit
  • 6 former EPA Chiefs say ‘derailed’ agency needs reset after election
  • Border Wall is the Biggest Threat to Southwest Wildlife, government emails reveal
  • Beaver families win legal ‘right to remain’
  • Federal Judge rules administration’s bird-killing policy is illegal
  • Alarm as pesticides spur rapid decline of US bird species
  • New species of ancient giant alligator identified
  • New shrimp species discovered in Panama’s Coiba National Park
  • Endangered Species discovered by scientists in Kalamazoo creek
  • Scientists try to create first rhino test tube baby to save near-extinct species
  • Wartime code breaker helps crack bird’s behaviour
  • Great White Shark soars 12ft into the air in highest recorded breach
  • Ireland is creating largest grove of redwoods outside of California
  • Canada pandas running on empty as bamboo dries up
  • Plant-based food market to reach $74.2bn by 2027
  • BMW to launch luxury cars with vegan leather interior
  • Nearly 60 different types of fish found in Chicago waterways
  • Six French aid workers and local guides shot dead in Niger Giraffe park
  • Amazon Deforestation Falls where land is under indigenous control
  • Scientists have invented a way to save a little Australian bird from a blood-sucking maggot
  • Ca AB 3030 to protect at least 30% of California’s land and water by 2030
  • Ecuador races for emergency infrastructure as river’s collapse threatens dam
  • Oregon man arrested for intentionally running down 6 pronghorn antelope with pickup truck
  • China’s $420bn TCM industry driving the extinction crisis
  • Washington Governor urged to order new rules to reduce wolf-killing
  • Singapore crushes ivory from around 300 elephants to deter illegal trade
  • Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on forest islands 10k years ago
  • Hilton Head beadchgoers seen picking up sea turtles, disturbing nests
  • Court upholds historical interpretation of Nation’s Bird Conservation Law
  • As wild areas become farmland, species that carry diseases flourish
  • House panel asks watchdog to investigate Army Corps of Engineers’ review of Alaskan mine project
  • Forest growth in drier climates will be impacted by reduced snowpack
  • SkyTruth visualization and app of drilling near Chaco Canyon available to activists and others
  • Biodiversity is the next frontier in sustainable fashion
  • Portugal ends coal burning two years ahead of schedule
  • After 125 years, 140 species of butterflies discovered in Mumbai’s Matheran Hill station
  • Agriculture replaces fossil fuels as largest human source of sulfur in the environment
  • Cincinnati Zoo’s critically endangered Black Rhino is pregnant
  • Large population of endangered mussel species found in Portage Creek
  • Genomic study reveals New Zealand’s Tuatara is like no other animal on the planet
  • Biodiversity loss is making us all sick
  • Captive Beluga Whales released into Iceland sanctuary
  • Eelgrass loss may be causing widespread erosion in Morro Bay
  • EPA to lift Obama-era controls on Methane, a potent Greenhouse Gas
  • Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances
  • Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation
  • Indonesian case highlights potential for long-term corruption
  • The Great Insect Dying – a global look at deepening crisis
  • Offshore wind power so cheap it could return money to consumers
  • Climate change impacts roads, may make traffic worse
  • After a shark attack in Maine, calls for Gray Seal culling grow
  • New study finds that many dams are located in protected areas, many more planned
  • Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years
  • After 5yr legal battle, USFWS reverses course, will consider Sonoran Desert Tortoise for endangered species status
  • World Bank policy advice boosts oil and gas, undermining climate goals
  • Seabird poo is worth more than $1bn annually
  • Endangered Seahorse makes a comeback due to lockdown
  • Second woman injured by whale in Western Australia
  • Disrupted habitats have more zoonotic disease hosts
  • Central Europe to face extreme droughts without climate action
  • Herbicide harming marsupial health and development
  • To save Appalachia’s endangered mussels, scientists hatched a bold plan
  • Interactive persistent effects of past land-cover and its trajectory on tropical freshwater biodiversity
  • Researchers discover new electrocatalyst for turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
  • Washington dam removal means 37 more miles of salmon habitat restores
  • Joy at Dublin Zoo as endangered species of ape gives birth to healthy baby
  • BLM releases final Montana management plans that conserve key backcountry lands
  • South Dakota unveils 50 ft statue honoring Sioux women
  • Bali sea turtles set free after poacher arrests
  • Building a circular battery economy in Norway
  • Chernobyl shines again as a solar farm
  • Fires in Argentina’s Parana Delta are burning out of control
  • NOAA fisheries cancels remaining Hawaiian Islands surveys for 2020
  • Scientists develop a super-strong wood that completely reflects the Sun’s heat
  • Poisoning not ruled out in death of hundreds of Botswana elephants
  • Ancient mountain formation and monsoon helps create a modern biodiversity hotspot
  • Lynx takes epic 2k mile trek – but why is a mystery
  • SeaWorld’s revenue has dropped 95% from 2019
  • Blue Whales bounce back after near extinction
  • Forest crimes persist in Peru following indigenous leader’s murder
  • Lion cub whose legs were broken to pose for tourists off to Africa for new life
  • Amazon rainforest the size of Sao Paulo cleared in July in Brazil
  • Wild bees add about $1.5 billion to yields for just six U.S. crops
  • France records driest July in six decades
  • Vermont makes it illegal to throw compost in the trash
  • Indy500 has cancelled this year’s balloon release
  • NASA to remove offensive names from planets and other heavenly bodies
  • Rare bearded vulture chick born in Picos de Europa flies the nest
  • Research reveals exactly why Peregrin Falcons are so deadly
  • Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farms’
  • Rhino poaching in Namibia down 63% on tougher policing, penalties
  • Five new species found in Melghat
  • Endangered Kangaroo rats now wearing backpacks in wash near Redlands, Highland
  • Black Teatfish Sea Cucumbers move toward endangered species protection
  • Endangered Brazilian Monkeys get a bridge to themselves
  • Canada’s last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses
  • Bernie Sanders backs bill to ban factory farming by 2040
  • Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed
  • Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk
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