Conservation News ~ 2 July 2021

• Great news from Nepal! Two enigmatic snow leopards have been successfully collared in Shey Phoksundo National Park
• Thousandth dormouse brought back to the wild
• "Portland, Oregon, Sets High-Temperature Record And Seattle Comes Close"
• "Infrastructure Deal Is Back on Track After Biden’s Assurances"
• "Miami Tower Collapse Stokes New Fears Of Rising Seas"
• "Senate OKs Bill To Certify Farm Practices Limiting Emissions"
• "Congress Votes To Reinstate Methane Rules Loosened By Trump"
• "EPA Watchdog Says Trump Appointees Kept Fired Employees On Payroll"
• Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard
• Report Reveals Extent Of Climate Threat To Yellowstone National Park
• "Climate Change Threatens Age-Old Indigenous Food Systems, Says UN"
• Flesh-Eating Parasites May Be Expanding Their Range As Climate Heats Up
• Endangered Species of World's Smallest Hog Released into the Wild in Northeast India
• New Spider Species Named After Tukaram Omble, Hero Cop Killed In 26/11 Mumbai Attacks        
• New species of aquatic mice discovered, cousins of one of the world's rarest mammals
• Sri Lanka zoo lion contracts COVID-19 as reports of animal infections rise
• Brazil continues to lose an entire generation of Indigenous leaders to COVID-19
• A startup deploys black soldier flies in the Philippines’ war on waste
• In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds
• Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species
• Forest loss in mountains of Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace
• Humans are biggest factor defining elephant ranges across Africa, study finds
• Philippine forest turtles stand a ‘good chance’ after first wild release
• Sri Lanka banks on the ocean to chart a green path toward a blue economy
• Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg
• AOC, Bowman Join Protesters at White House Demanding Climate Action
• "Pacific Northwest Bakes Under Once-In-A-Millennium Heat Dome"
• "CEQ Postpones Agency Deadline For Trump NEPA Rules"
• House Appropriations Panel Asks $15.6 Billion Increase In Interior Funds
• A Black Family Farm Is Fighting Racism In Agriculture And Climate Change
• "It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?"
• "Wildfires Threaten Urban Water Supplies, Long After the Flames Are Out"
• Communities Dependent on Fossil Fuel Economy Look for Just Transition
• "Bangladesh Scraps Plans To Build 10 Coal-Fired Power Plants"
• "Damaging ‘Fly-Shooting’ Fishing In Channel Sparks Concerns"
• Climate, biodiversity & farmers benefit from rubber agroforestry: report
• In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education
• Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire
• Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park
• NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat
• How many times a day does a waterbuck need to drink? Candid Animal Cam
• Police Report Spike In Sudden Deaths As B.C. Heat Wave Continues
• "The Chamber of Commerce's Sordid History of Climate Denial"
• "DFO Shuts Most B.C. Fisheries In Desperate Effort To Save Salmon"
• After Trump Named Perdue Ag Secretary, ADM Sold Him Land For a Song
• Judge Tosses Scrapyard's Lawsuit Seeking Chicago Permit
• "Supreme Court Backs Pipes on Land-Use Suits in PennEast Win"
• "Environmentalists Allege Pollution From West Virginia Mine"
• WH Says Bipartisan Deal Will Get Rid Of All Of The Country's Lead Pipes
• "First African American Named To Lead US Forest Service"
• Coal-Mining 'Monster' Is Threatening To Swallow A Small Town In Germany
• Monks and wildlife come under pressure from Malaysian cement company
• Cambodia’s first giant muntjac sighting highlights key mountain habitat
• Study warns of impacts of unregulated trade in Indonesian porcupines
• New species of snail in Western Ghats belongs to entirely new genus: Researchers
• Botanists name astonishing new species of ‘fairy lantern’ plants from Malaysian rainforests
• Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels
• Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation
• The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation
• Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future
• ‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census
• Podcast: Connecting kids and ourselves to nature
• In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure
• DFO shuts most BC fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
• US cities are suffocating in the heat and now they’re suing fossil fuel companies
• Iowa climate activist sentenced to eight years in federal prison for Dakota Access pipeline sabotage
• Shar Mountain National Park in North Macedonia is now Europe’s largest transboundary protected areas
• Bangladesh scraps plan to build 10 coal-fired power plants
• Exxon lobbyist caught on video talks about undermining Biden’s climate push
• Canadian Liberals say by 2035 all new cars, light-duty trucks sold in Canada will be electric
• California oil is among the most climate-damaging on earth
• Mouse extinct for 150 years found living on island
• Wildebeest, bustards and bongos – Kenya begins first national census of wildlife
• Supreme Court won’t sidetrack plans for natural gas pipeline
• State of California approves an $8-million grant to purchase Newport Banning Ranch
• CDFW and CALFIRE delivered much needed water to bighorn sheep in the Mojave
• Harvard’s new solid-state Lithium battery can be recharged 10,000 times
• US Supreme Court dismisses last legal appeal for Washington state coal export proposal
• Congress tells Biden to declare extinction crisis a national emergency
• Recovering Blue Butterfly proposed for downlisting in Oregon
• New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
• Massachusetts House introduces bill to compel Harvard to divest of fossil fuels
• A lake in Antarctica has suddenly disappeared
• Newly discovered species of lizard in Ecuador named in honor of Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo
• Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species
• Naples man invents product to repel toxic cane toad
• California deserts lost nearly 40% of plants to hotter drier weather
• California just committed itself to an unprecedented amount of clean energy
• Gabon is first African country paid to protect its rainforest
• Biden to reinstate road ban for Tongass
• Maine becomes the first US state to divest from fossil fuels
• "Hundreds Believed Dead In Heat Wave Despite Efforts To Help"
• House, Setting Marker for Talks, Passes $715 Billion Infrastructure Bill
• High Levels Of Cancer-Causing Formaldehyde Found In Parts Of Houston
• Biden Aims to Increase Electric Car Sales By Using Pollution Rules
• "Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ Shows Earlier-Than-Expected Melt"
• "Exxon Tapes Add Fuel For Congressional Investigators"
• Underpaid Firefighters, Stretched Budgets: US Unprepared For Climate Fires
• "Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest"
• As Time Runs Out To Cut Carbon From Buildings, Industry Tightens Its Grip
• "Utah Fireworks Law Sparks Confusion Amid Drought, Wildfire Risks"
• China has eliminated malaria
• Marine ecosystems rebound from extinctions quicker than we thought
• The unprecedented national model, the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act, became law on 1 July
• Lawsuit Filed to Overturn Denial of Endangered Species Protection to Eastern Hellbenders
• Animal-loving Utah 9-year-old raises $750 to help endangered species
• New conservation area in BC saves habitat for 14 at-risk species
• Local Lockdowns Brought Fast Global Ozone Reductions, NASA Finds
• NASA Map Gives Most Accurate Space-Based View of LA's Carbon Dioxide