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Conservation News ~ 2 July 2021

7/2/2021

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  • 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
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