Conservation News ~ 14 August 2020

• 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