Conservation News ~ 15 November 2019

• 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