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Conservation News ~ 15 November 2019

11/14/2019

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  • MSU researchers make surprising wolf diet discovery that wolves eat grasshoppers
  • 6 elephant tusk smugglers arrested
  • New border wall going up in southeastern Arizona wildlife refuge
  • Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time
  • Great Thunberg sets sail back to Europe
  • Rescuing the world’s endangered river dolphins takes cutting edge science and community
  • Insect ‘apocalypse’ in US driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
  • Ant expert discovers new Utah species in backyard
  • New species of carnivorous dinosaur identified in Cambodia
  • Endangered falcons released into wild atop New York City high-rise
  • India’s Ganga River dolphins are being shouted down by noisy boats
  • Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production
  • Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan
  • Experts unlock key to photosynthesis
  • 3 cows swept out to sea by Hurricane Dorian are found alive
  • Snow in Texas and ice in Alabama – unusual cold weather could become more common
  • Malawi receives 17 rhinoceros from South Africa
  • US mining sites dump millions of gallons of toxic waste into drinking water sources
  • Cargo of bear paws from 60 illegally slaughtered animals is seized
  • Panther kittens at ZooTampa not showing signs of impairment
  • 3,600 invasive pythons killed in Florida
  • Fed up with Forest Service cuts, Mammoth Lakes and other towns are plotting a recreation tourism plan
  • SC Farm Bureau creates hemp committee
  • More than 200 elephants in Zimbabwe die as drought crisis deepens
  • An Icelandic fishing company bribed officials in Namibia and used Norway’s largest bank
  • Venice flooded by highest tide in 50 years
  • New program helps struggling chicken farmers convert to plant-based crops
  • Indigenous women traveled 3000 miles to save an Alaskan forest from US Feds
  • Californian fire chief says Australia is facing the new normal
  • Officer murdered in the Philippines part of growing list of natural resources officials killed
  • National Parks a boost to mental health worth trillions
  • First evidence of feathered polar dinosaurs found in Australia
  • Florida Governor announces Everglades restoration milestone
  • New material points toward highly efficient solar cells
  • US sees largest reduction of protected lands in history
  • Antarctica’s first zero-emission research station shows that sustainable living is possible
  • Barrier to stop plastic waste from reaching the sea launches in Amsterdam
  • Using polar bear footprints to chart family trees
  • Massive Bel Marin Keys marsh restoration begins
  • Vikings killed off Iceland’s walruses
  • America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
  • Dungeness crab fishing season delayed due to whale and sea turtle entanglement risk
  • Australian bushfires wipe out half of koala colony
  • Moth populations in steady decline in Britain
  • Seven new species of leeches that only leave their homes to suck blood from fish are discovered
  • China aims to build its own Yellowstone on Tibetan plateau
  • Oil palm plantation owner charged in murder of journalists in Indonesia
  • Fires and greenhouse gases fuel the drying of the Amazon
  • US Feds make it easier to dredge protected areas to restore beaches
  • One of the world’s thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming
  • EPA to limit science used to write public health rules
  • Bolivian coup comes less than a week after Morales stopped multinational firm’s lithium mining deal
  • The Patanal, the world’s largest wetlands, are burning in Brazil
  • New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
  • Millions of seabirds rely on discarded fish
  • Oil spill threatens vast areas of mangroves and coral reefs in Brazil
  • Scientists rediscover mammalian oddity in remote Vietnam
  • New species of spider named after Sachin Tendulkar
  • Researchers discerned a new species of dragonfly
  • Endangered hoiho penguin wins New Zealand’s bird of the year poll
  • Fukushima to be reborn as $2.7bn wind and solar power hub
  • Exxon, Chevronissue warning on Warren’s fracking ban
  • Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry
  • The Bayman’s Nightmare: All the scallops are dead
  • Banksy uses toy animals to highlight animal cruelty and factory farming
  • Giant Greta Thunberg mural to watch over San Francisco’s downtown
  • Sandra the Orangutan freed from a zoo after being granted ‘personhood’
  • New species- the Sierra Pine Saguaro
  • Lump found on sea floor off Florida may be new species that resembles human poop
  • Kirtland’s warbler officially comes off Federal Endangered Species list
  • Program using cocoa trees to restore Amazon forest to be expanded
  • Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water
  • Spider webs don’t rot easily and scientists may have figured out why
  • Giant water battery cuts university’s energy costs by $100 million over next 25 years
  • Fossils found in BC are a new species More than 60 endangered turtles disappear from zoo in Japan
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