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Conservation News ~ 16 October 2020

10/16/2020

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  • Harvard fund evades justice in land-grabbing case over Cerrado farm                      
  • Researchers discover fossils of new species of reptile in Arizona
  • AG Opposes White House’s Proposal Against Endangered Species Act     
  • Burn scars, winter storms threaten rare and endangered species in San Gabriel Mountains
  • Animal conservation groups to sue federal government over dwindling giraffe population
  • Professor Claire Kremen wins the coveted Volvo Environment Prize 2020
  • Critically Endangered Red Wolf Illegally Killed in August; Only 7 Known to Remain in Wild
  • Maui has begun the process of managed retreat and it wants big oil to pay the cost of sea level rise
  • NASA and international partners sign Artemis Accords
  • Imperiled desert tortoises join California’s endangered list
  • Bobcat fire aftermath threatens endangered species in San Gabriel Mountains
  • Michigan poacher who killed 18 wolves and bald eagle gets hunting license revoked for life
  • Greener play areas boost children’s immune systems
  • In the horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’
  • The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals
  • Indonesia’s new deregulation law to hurt small fishers, coastal communities
  • Canada will ban plastic bags by end of next year
  • China still allowing use of pangolin scales in traditional medicine
  • Israel moves to ban ‘immoral’ animal fur trade
  • 3,500 tuna held in cages illegally for a year finally released
  • Over 30,000 sea turtles eggs seized from trick in Oaxaca
  • Judge strikes down Obama-era rule limiting methane pollution, Big Oil is ‘overjoyed’
  • Environmentalists and dam operators, at war for years, start making peace
  • New aloe species discovered from a desert in northwestern India
  • Terrifying new species of turkey-like dinosaur discovered in the Gobi Desert
  • Indonesia is putting business before the environment and that could be disastrous for its rainforest
  • God intended it as a disposable planet: the US pastor preaching climate change
  • Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation
  • Nobel laureate who helped save the ozone layer dies
  • Tucson heat prompts AZ leaders to consider declaring a Climate Emergency
  • CA Exide battery recycling plant left big toxic mess, could it walk away
  • COVID-19 outbreak kills nearly 10,000 minks on Utah fur farm
  • David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature
  • Public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge’s order
  • BLM acquisition boosts access by public along Gunnison River
  • Researchers map the anatomy of the mysteriously shaped beetle
  • New species of ancient maritime predators discovered in Morocco
  • Conservationists condemn US failure to protect wolverines
  • When the US and China fight, it is the environment that suffers
  • Carbon capture ‘moonshot’ moves closer as billions of dollars pour in
  • Maryland will become the first state to ban foam food service products
  • Six new species of butterflies add colour to Kondapalli reserve forest
  • Real and imminent extinction risk to whales
  • People, not carbon emissions, should be at the heart of the west’s climate action
  • Puerto Rican Harlequin Butterfly proposed for Endangered Species Act protection
  • RBC becomes first major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge
  • Hidden beneath the Ocean’s surface, nearly 16 million tons of microplastic
  • The Marangoni effect can be used to obtain freshwater from the sea
  • New evidence suggests China’s dark vessels poached in Galapagos waters
  • Madagascar’s top court criticizes government handling of mining project
  • Brazil reports lower deforestation, higher fires in September
  • Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon
  • We’re not protecting enough of the right areas to save biodiversity
  • On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species
  • The Union of BC Indian Chiefs has released a resolution about the fate of old-growth forest in BD
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