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Conservation News ~ 17 April 2020

4/17/2020

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  • Brazilian indigenous chiefs act to halt illegal logging in historical landmark area
  • Ring-tailed lemurs stink flirt
  • Warmer temperatures drive up dengue fever cases in Indonesia
  • Sri Lanka’s COVID lockdown sets wildlife free but raises poaching threats
  • Fears of rise in poaching amid pandemic poverty
  • Rwanda has made nearly 35% of the country’s two million hectare restoration goal a reality
  • State biologists note 6 new wolf packs in Oregon
  • New wilderness preserve created in Bridgewater
  • New pit viper in Arunachal Pradash named after Harry Potter character
  • New Orleans Flood Control harms endangered species, lawsuit says
  • State Panel grants temporary endangered species status to Southern California cougars
  • Evolutionary trees can’t reveal speciation and extinction rates
  • Judge says that failure to help whales skirts the Endangered Species Act
  • US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline after lawsuit
  • Paul McCartney says China’s wet markets are Medieval and obscene
  • Second city in China bans eating dogs, cats, and wild animals
  • Brian May says veganism is the way forward from COVID
  • Quarantining also means caring for our great ape relatives
  • A comet may have destroyed a paleolithic village 12,800 years ago
  • Rescuing orangutans doesn’t work for apes or forests
  • Human handling stresses young Monarch butterflies
  • China releases list of animals to be farmed after COVID
  • Locust plague up to 20 times larger than last wave could devastate parts of East Africa
  • Rapid deforestation of Brazilian Amazon could bring next pandemic
  • Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian species
  • EPA scientists said US should tighten key air pollution limit – the agency’s head just said no
  • EPA can’t kick scientists off science advisory panels, court says
  • White House redacts every single page of the science findings for copper mining research in the Boundary Waters
  • Himalayas visible for first time in 30 years as pollution levels in India drop
  • Solar-powered driveways are made from recycled plastic bottles
  • Oregon coast spring Chinook Salmon one step closer to endangered species protections
  • Data shows 30 percent drop in air pollution over Northeast US
  • Study projects 30%more forest cover if wood biomass is managed right – critics call it a disaster
  • In Colombian wetland, oil woes deepen with the arrival of fracking
  • Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID in Indonesia
  • New species of black endemic iguanas in Caribbean is proposed for urgent conservation
  • Ukraine wildfires draw dangerously close to Chernobyl
  • Scientists Joshua Trees may warrant listing as threatened species
  • With Yosemite National Park closed to visitors, bears are out and about
  • Virginia governor rejects bill to censor vegan milk labels
  • To cut carbon, a movement grows to electrify everything
  • Deep sea expedition uncovers 30 new species
  • Calls to declare koalas endangered as species races toward extinction
  • Endangered species program challenge pushed to appeals court
  • Endangered New Zealand bird sent to safety offshore despite COVID lockdown
  • Brazil’s dictator hands indigenous land decisions back to farm sector
  • Scientists have found oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in fish livers
  • See Florida panthers fight over territory in first ever footage
  • Offshore oil and gas platforms release more methane than previously estimated
  • Virginia becomes first state in the South to target 100% clean power
  • New renewable energy capacity hit record levels in 2019
  • Hundreds of dead seals washing ashore in Nova Scotia
  • Wildlife destruction not a slippery slope but a series of cliff edges
  • Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world
  • Americans disagree on animal protection; experts disagree on which ones need it
  • New Zealand pushed to replace animal agriculture with plant-based crops
  • Ganga River water becomes fit for drinking in Haridwar, Rishikesh during India’s lockdown
  • Tiger King just made Virginia ban cub petting
  • National Marine Fisheries Service found in violation of Endangered Species Act
  • One of North America’s rarest mammals was just spotted in Yosemite
  • Pope says COVID, fires, floods are nature’s reponses
  • COVID forces Sea Shepherd to suspend patrols to protect last vaquitas
  • Reproductive woes spell need for more viable females in Sumatran rhino program
  • More than half of remote reefs in Coral Sea marine park suffered extreme bleaching
  • Eating bats and pangolins banned in Gabon as a result of COVID pandemic
  • White House to open more wildlife refuge land to hunting, fishing
  • DC just banned the sale of Elephant Ivory and Rhino Horn
  • Exploiting nature drives outbreaks of new diseases
  • Logging begins in unburnt areas of Australia’s Nambucca State Forest
  • New bird species showcases burgeoning biodiversity
  • Federal Judge finds lobster fishery threatens endangered whale
  • Norway and Canada give green light to cruel seal hunts during COVID
  • Endangered Blue Whales spotted off New England coast
  • 74 miles of Oakland streets will close to cars to give pedestrians, bicyclists exercise room
  • New Yorkers will vote on a $3billion bond issue designed to address environment and climate
  • EPA proposes big expansion of Port Everglades offshore dump
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