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Conservation News ~ 19 June 2020

6/19/2020

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  • New species of orchid native to Singapore discovered in Bukit Timah Reserve
  • New Species from World’s largest spider group found in Sri Lanka for first time
  • 38 endangered Brazilian tree species illegally traded, poorly tracked
  • Iceland is undoing carbon emissions for good, turning C02 into stone
  • A robot sloth will survey endangered species
  • World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert
  • Forest loss escalates biodiversity change
  • White House blocks tribes from protecting their waters
  • Mangrove collapse inevitable unless emissions are curbed
  • Chimps prefer human crops and it’s better for them
  • From a Philippine conflict hotspot, a new insect-eating plant emerges
  • Indonesia struggles to restore peatlands as fires strangle national parks
  • Canadian grocery store grows its own organic veggies on rooftop
  • PG&E ordered to pay $4 million for Camp fire that killed 84
  • Federal approval of oil well at Carrizo Plain National Monument sparks outrage
  • Globally renowned Kayapo Chief Paiakan passes away due to COVID
  • Creator of Conservation Biology, Michael Soule, passes away
  • New Jersey announces $400 million offshore wind port
  • SD Zoo baby pygmy hippo makes splashy debut
  • Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  • Most of BCs massive old trees are ghosts, existing only on paper
  • European Rewilding Network becomes Belgian rewilding initiative
  • Gujarat now home to 674 lion, 29% increase in population
  • New species of mimicking spider camouflaged like a dried-up leaf discovered in China rainforest
  • BC mine proposed in critical caribou habitat shows how endangered species fall through the cracks
  • Trans Mountain pipeline spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil on indigenous land in BC
  • Peru declares new conservation area protecting almost 200 species found nowhere on the planet
  • Brazilian government taken to court for assault on environment, climate
  • Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals
  • Wildlife advocated sue Forest Service over rising wolf body count in Washington
  • Lawsuit launched challenging Endangered Species Act denial for imperiled Sage Grouse
  • Senate Passes the Great American Outdoors Act
  • Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK
  • Climate models underestimate CO2 emissions from permafrost by 14 percent
  • World’s rarest seal finds refuge on notorious prison island
  • 40k Conservationists ask Utah to spare Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf
  • As EPA steps back, states face wave of requests for environmental leniency
  • A possible record number of Blue Whales at the Farallones
  • Supreme Court clears way for Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross Appalachian trail
  • New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
  • A new species of diamond frog from Northern Madagascar
  • Victorian government found to have failed to protect critically endangered grasslands
  • Magnetic Sponge MOF captures carbon with record energy efficiency
  • Ag Secretary announces Forest Service Policy changes during Missoula stop
  • Amazon River dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed
  • New jumping spider species in the Philippines
  • NOAA Chief violated ethics code in furor over White House tweet
  • 1,000 California Condor recently tagged
  • Extremely rare white Killer Whale named Iceberg
  • EPA’s new rule will protect polluters, not the environment
  • Poachers arrested for killing Endangered Silverback Gorilla
  • Nevada takes important step to protect Endangered Fish
  • Supreme Court leaves Clean Water Act intact
  • Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions
  • Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push
  • Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia
  • Conservation Fund acquires iconic Pine Forest in Western Maine
  • Novel endemic dogfish species discovered from Japan
  • Bipartisan Bill could help boost Florida’s growing EV market
  • Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election
  • Sea cucumber smuggler sentenced to 8 months in jail
  • 90 percent of US could be powered by renewables in 2035
  • Anti-poaching dog beloved by Prince Harry retires after catching 200 criminals
  • Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage
  • Environment Ministry unlocked many protected areas during the lockdown
  • Scientists discover that a squid can edit its own genetic code
  • Cape Leopard Trust shares rare sighting of three leopard cubs
  • Channel Island Fox has remarkable recovery story
  • New Zealand recognized all animals as sentient beings
  • BHP halts plans to destroy 40 sacred sites to make way for $4.5bn mine after public outcry
  • Robotic dolphin causing stir in aquariums while solving ethical dilemma
  • BC opens Sunshine Coast forest – home to Canada’s oldest trees – to logging
  • UK’s barn owls are growing in number, thanks to humans
  • Almost complete loss of early salmon runs at Fraser River slide in BC last year
  • French government to launch legal action against bear killers
  • New breeding pair brings glimmer of hope for world’s rarest primate
  • A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has been found
  • South African proposal to breed wildlife for slaughter courts disaster
  • Botanists study spots 42 new tree species in 10 years
  • Newly discovered spider species in Madagascar named after climate activist Greta Thunberg
  • Rwenzori Mountains Park partners with WWF to protect Endangered Species
  • Rare Gorilla Rafiki killed by Uganda hunters
  • 14 straight months of rising Amazon deforestation in Brazil
  • Nature’s slow lanes offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change, other pressures
  • EPA loses major Clean Water Act case on Toxic Spill dispersants
  • Charges dropped against 22 Wet’seuwet’en Land Defenders
  • The International Space Station jut became a powerful tool for tracking animal migration
  • Agile, sickle-clawed new species of velociraptor-like dinosaur unearthed in Patagonia
  • China’s COVID interventions reduced nitrogen dioxide levels
  • Colombian farmers, ranchers join business to turn the tide on Amazon deforestation
  • An armada of 65k sea turtles caught on drone cam, flock to Great Barrier Reef
  • Indonesia to allow back destructive seine and trawl nets in waters
  • In Philippines Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer
  • Indigenous-led conservation signals path forward for Canada’s first marine protected area network
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