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Conservation News ~ 20 March 2020

3/20/2020

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  • Cambodia scraps plans for Mekong hydropower dams
  • Three new species of chameleons emerge from century-old entanglement
  • Mexico’s deadly toll of environment and land defenders catalogued in report
  • Lawsuit seeks to finalize Endangered Species protection for Eastern Black Rail
  • Win for conservation as African black rhino number rise
  • China’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging
  • Study finds that sea turtles might be eating plastic because it smells like food
  • Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt that a growing risk
  • The National Park Service has waived entrance fees
  • The coronavirus pandemic drastically reduced carbon emissions
  • Ancient worm finally pegged as new genus
  • As virus shuts down cities in Europe, pollution drops
  • Urban coyotes eat lots of cats and human garbage, poop study finds
  • Two new species of sawsharks found in West Indian Ocean
  • As Italy quarantines over coronavirus, dolphins appear in Venice canals
  • Amazon rainforest reaches point of no return
  • Researchers engineer the world’s first aerogels made from scrap tires
  • Birth of wild tapir offers hope for Brazil’s endangered ecosystem
  • Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic
  • Ecuador’s tallest waterfall suddenly disappeared
  • Madagascar off pace to meet Aichi targets
  • Lack of farmer training worsens Sri Lanka’s growing human-wildlife conflict
  • Dick’s Sporting Goods to phase out hunting department in over 400 stores
  • Mysterious ancient sea-worm pegged as new genus after half-century waste basket
  • Houston Toad/Endangered Species Act – Center for Biological Diversity Judicial Challenge to US
  • Palm oil firm has farmers jailed for harvesting from land it stole from them
  • Critics push back as cable car project for Indonesia’s Rinjani is revived
  • Smaller fragments of forest at risk of greater levels of deforestation
  • Costa Rican caterpillar decline spells trouble for ecosystems
  • 4 Black teens build robot that can remove all plastics in every ocean worldwide
  • YC graduate Genecis Bioindustries turns food waste into compostable plastics
  • New plant species discovered in south China
  • EPA announces new biological evaluations for pesticides under Endangered Species Act
  • Chile’s biosphere reserves get supersized but protection isn’t a given
  • San Francisco’s Michelin-starred restaurant Lazy Bear goes vegan for nine days
  • NASA screens vegan film The Game Changers to prepare for vegan future in outer space
  • Satellite images reveal a dramatic drop in pollution during the corona virus quarantine
  • New fish species accidentally discovered on film
  • Endangered tiger salamander making a comeback in Maryland
  • 17 large-scale solar projects planned in Upstate New York
  • Biodiversity hotspot in India’s Western Ghats reveals yet another undescribed species
  • VW says it will drop 30k ID.3 electric cars at once, will be cheaper than gas cars
  • Two suspected rhino poachers shot dead in KwaZulu-Natal game park
  • Australia MPs dismayed at NSW forestry logging unburnt habitat after bushfires
  • White House is thwarted by court in bid to log biggest national forest
  • Western Lowland Gorillas may be territorial
  • Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports
  • Fish stock plunder costing SA billions
  • Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritizes trees and people – emissions? Not so much
  • Pipeline company to pay more than $60 million for 2015 oil spill near Santa Barbara
  • Florida poised to protect Gulf of Mexico’s largest seagrass bed
  • Major steps taken to implement the Endangered Species Act
  • San Diego Zoo researchers retrieve rhino’s eggs to recover critically endangered species
  • Supreme Court rejects Trans Mountain legal challenges
  • Conservationists cautiously optimistic after Bolivian government changes hands
  • Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world
  • Heat stress may affect more than 1.2 billion people annually by 2100
  • Peruvian women unite against toxic metals pollution and win human rights prize
  • Chinese company claims eating dogs shows ‘cultural confidence’
  • Neom, Saudi Arabia’s $500 billion megacity, reaches its next phase
  • Six-fold jump in polar ice loss lifts global oceans
  • Next generation water splitter could help renewable power the globe
  • Young mountain lion killed trying to cross the 101
  • Wales launches 5m pound national forest scheme
  • Virginia becomes the first state in the South to target 100% clean power
  • A new mantis species rises from the ashes of Brazil’s national museum
  • New species of Musk Shrew discovered in Indonesia
  • Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins
  • Record-high global tree cover loss driven by agriculture
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