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Conservation News ~ 2 October 2020

10/2/2020

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  • Judge Removes Public Lands Boss for Serving Unlawfully
  • Area of zero tolerance enlarged to protect endangered vaquita
  • Land defenders are killed in the Philippines for protesting Canadian mining
  • At least 28 extinctions prevented by conservation action in recent decades
  • Nordstrom officially bans fur and exotic animal skins
  • Marion conservation area renamed to honor Iowa Native American pioneer in women’s rights
  • 40 percent of world’s plants at risk of extinction
  • Oregon State researcher IDs 4 new species of wasp that lived 25 million years ago
  • New ‘forever chemicals’ contaminating the environment
  • Lawsuit filed to put Louisiana Black Bear back on endangered species list
  • New NY state law adds level of protection to endangered species
  • Brazil revokes mangroves protections, triggering alarms
  • Coral’s resilience to warming may depend on iron
  • Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact lost to human pressure
  • California bans rodenticide in a win for California wildlife
  • A quarter of all reptile species, many of them endangered, are sold online
  • New species of millipede discovered at Caw Caw
  • Toxins in plastic blamed for heath, environment hazards
  • Revival of endangered bird provides bit of good environmental news
  • Vietnam creates new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’
  • Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation/fire monitoring to military
  • Indonesia’s new intelligence hub wields data in the war on illegal fishing
  • World leaders endorse ‘Pledge for Nature’ to address planetary emergency
  • A Philippine stingless bee helps boost coconut yields and empower women
  • Archaelogists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to settle the Caribbean Islands
  • US emissions reductions slowed after US pulled out of Paris Accord
  • World leaders urged to ban all trade in wild animals and birds for eating to prevent pandemics
  • World leaders pledge to protect 30% of the planet by 2030
  • New study shows converting to electric vehicles alone won’t meet climate targets
  • Canada pledges to stem biodiversity loss and ensure pandemic recovery is ‘green’
  • Joe Biden to make almost every policy a climate change policy
  • Two new species of wetland plant discovered from Western Ghats
  • New species of cockroach-killing wasps discovered in 25-million-year-old amber
  • China fires back at US over environment, South China Sea
  • Mussel species in Virginia could be added to Endangered Species Act
  • Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia to Japan in world-first shipment
  • White House to reopen largest National Forest to development, rejecting environmental and cultural importance
  • In lead up to biodiversity summit, big commitments to nature
  • Plastic-eating enzyme ‘cocktail’ heralds new hope for plastic
  • Shark fin trafficking ring busted as trade ban comes into effect in Florida
  • Mass elephant die-off caused by cyanobacteria
  • Canada’s Liberal government to spend $10B on clean energy infrastructure to fuel pandemic economic recovery
  • REI Co-op achieves 14-year carbon neutrality commitment, announces ambitious new climate pattern
  • India makes Amazon pay for plastic pollution
  • Ray at Kagoshima aquarium revealed as new species
  • Feds to relax protections for red-cockaded woodpecker since 1970
  • New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all
  • World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report
  • World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds
  • Brazilian dry forests are chronically degraded even in non-deforested areas
  • Kenya earmarks $3.7 million to boost rhino protection
  • The massive ocean blob anomaly has our fingerprints all over it
  • A new mass extinction has been discovered, wiping out life 233 million years ago
  • 20 new species of fauna recorded on Pulua Ubin, including new type of spider
  • New beetle species named after Alexandria resident James Sherald
  • Sen. Udall introduces ‘Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act’
  • Mining companies stand to win from Peru-China FTA that neglects environment
  • Ikea faces Swiss complaint over wood believed to have been illegally logged
  • Researchers show conscious processes in birds’ brains for the first time
  • 30 retired elephants will live out their days at Nassau County wildlife refuge
  • Koala may be given endangered listing as numbers plummet
  • US House passes sweeping clean energy bill
  • Emails show how pesticide lobby influenced US position in health talks
  • Relocated Isle Royale wolves form groups, reduce moose herd
  • Seismic blasting efforts halted in Atlantic Ocean
  • Around 2500 new species to arrive in Europe by 2050 causing damage to biodiversity
  • 3 new damselflies discovered in Western Ghats
  • Charleston naturalist gets to name new millipede species after discovery at Caw Caw center
  • AZA celebrates funding for endangered species and announces 2020 Honors and Awards
  • SELC flags Endangered Species Act violation in EPA rule harming clean water
  • Graeme Worboys passes away
  • Climate change is transforming how plants grow
  • Study shows warming ocean, vicious carbon cycle
  • Antarctic and high seas protection can save half the planet
  • A machine-learning assist to predicting hurricane intensity
  • NASA monitors Carbon Monoxide from California Wildfires
  • Comet discovered to have its own Northern Lights
  • School-Bus sized asteroid to safely zoom past earth
  • NASA’s new Mars rover will use x-ray to hunt fossils
  • New sea level satellite arrives at California launch site
  • Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025
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