Conservation News ~ 20 May 2022

• Ugandan court hands Congolese parrot trafficker seven-year jail sentence
• New investigation links chicken supply chains in Europe to Indigenous rights abuses in Brazil
• Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area
• Release the cats: Training native species to fear invasive predators
• In Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous lands stop deforestation and boost recovery
• The slender-snouted crocodile savior: Q&A with Whitley Award winner Emmanuel Amoah
• Small-island fishers petition Indonesian president to end coastal dredging
• As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks
• Wage-related abuses in fishing industry exacerbated by pandemic response
• ‘The wheels came off’: South Africa court nixes coal mine extension
• Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith
• ‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds
• Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)
• Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests
• Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel
• China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity
• Conservation win for Bangladesh as efforts to halt vulture decline pay off
• New plant species discovered in Knuckles Range
• Infrastructure Act to Provide $68 Million for Ecosystem Restoration Projects
• Archaeologists stunned on discovering 'totally new species' of human in African cave
• Trophy hunting incentivises killing of endangered animals, warns Zambian environmentalist
• Red salamander found in Panamanian forest is a new species
• Striking new snake species discovered in Paraguay
• CCAS professor helps discover salamander species in US Gulf Coastal Plain
• Dust Storm, Hurricane-Force Winds Tear Path Across U.S. Upper Midwest
• "Texas Heatwave To Test Power Grid Again This Week"
• Study Says Warming Played a Role in Deadly South African Floods
• "Hearing Shows Uphill Fight For Progressive Mining Reform"
• "Here’s the First-Ever Map Showing Wildfire Risk to American Homes"
• "Why the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices Isn’t Working"
• "Lawsuit Targets EPA Clean Air Act Waiver Revival"
• "9th Circuit Keeps Massive Ariz. Copper Mine On Ice"
• "Poor Workers Bear The Brunt Of India's Heatwave"
• Justice Dept. Tries to Put Teeth Into Environmental Justice Efforts
• Rivers could generate thousands of nuclear power plants worth of energy, thanks to a new ‘blue' membrane
• Environment award stokes urge to save Indonesia’s karst landscape
• Village uses Indigenous seeds to slow down Cerrado deforestation
• Ousted anti-mining mayor heads back to Philippine city hall after landslide win
• Oil exploration in DR Congo peatland risks forests, climate and local communities
• "Buffalo Suspect May Be Latest Mass Shooter Motivated By ‘Eco-Fascism’"
• "Menaced By Flames, Nuclear Lab Peers Into Future Of Wildfire"
• "Meatpackers Drafted Trump Order On Meat Plants During Covid-19"
• "6 Months In, Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Has 4,300 Projects"
• "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Drops To Lowest Level Since 1987"
• "Climate Change Is Hurting Insurers, Report Says"
• Pennsylvania Senate Candidates Support Fracking, Barely Mention Climate
• "The ‘Carbon Bombs’ Set To Trigger Catastrophic Climate Breakdown"
• "In US, States Struggle To Replace Fossil Fuel Tax Revenue"
• "Far From Lake Powell, Drought Punishes Another Western Dam"
• Amazon deforestation threatens newly discovered fish species in Brazil
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• Scientists Discover New Non-Venomous Snake Species in Paraguay
• "Pollution Killing 9 Million People A Year, Africa Hardest Hit - Study"
• "Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Are Going Dangerously Unregulated"
• "Fukushima Water Release Plan Gets Initial OK From Japan Regulator"
• "$230M Settlement Reached Over 2015 California Oil Spill"
• Chicagoans Near Heavy-Traffic Corridors Breathing Most Polluted Air
• "Judge Reverses Trump-Era ESA Sage Grouse Move"
• "Europe Rethinks Its Reliance on Burning Wood for Electricity"
• "Oceans Are Hotter, Higher And More Acidic, Climate Report Warns"
• "U.N. Secretary General Asks Countries To Ease Barriers To Green Energy"
• "He Bought The House 9 Months Ago. Then The Ocean Swept It Away."
• Two New Fish Species Discovered in Brazil
• Scientists Discover Nearly 1 Billion-Year-Old Organisms, Possibly Alive
• Australia's tropical rainforests have been dying faster for decades in 'clear and stark climate warning'
• Carbon pollution pushed environmental breakdown to record levels in 2021
• New species of non-venomous snake recorded in Mizoram
• Podcast: Vandana Shiva on the agroecology solution for the climate, biodiversity crisis and hunger
• EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning
• Indigenous group and locals sign agreement to protect sustainable livelihoods and culture
• Open-pit mining ban lifted in Philippine province, clearing way for copper project
• Spotted hyenas adapt to climate change in famed Tanzanian park
• Study: Breeding adaptations help tree frogs thrive in different climates
• Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid
• Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories
• ‘Wildlife-friendly’ infrastructure rules in Nepal and India ignore the birds
• ‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species
• From victims to claimants: Mobilizing the IPCC Assessment for climate justice (commentary)
• Scientists uncover widespread declines of raptors in Kenya
• In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight the erasure of their African heritage
• "Vast Swath of US at Risk of Summer Blackouts, Regulator Warns"
• "Environmentalists Oppose More Life For California Nuke Plant"
• "SEC To Consider Sustainable Investing Rules"
• Droughts, Fires, Floods: Could Climate Change Decide Australian Election?
• "Climate Change Swells Odds Of Record India, Pakistan Heatwaves"
• "Here’s What We Know About The Legacy of DDT Dumping Off L.A.'s Coast"
• "Senators Announce Bipartisan Deal To Aid Veterans Exposed To Burn Pits"
• "UN Floats Plan To Boost Renewables As Climate Worries Mount"
• Plastic 'Recycling' Gets Boost In 18 US States — But Is It Really Recycling?
• Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, But Still A Threat
• Bird watcher wrongfully accused in Central Park video gets a bird watching TV show
• DOE announces nearly $25 million to study advanced clean hydrogen technologies
• Activists disrupt Africa Energies summit in Mayfair, London
• Fly researchers find another layer hiding in the code of life
• Scientists unearth Africa’s oldest burial: a small child, laid to rest 78,000 years ago
• San Diego Port commits to $180,000 to help propagate endangered Ridgeway Rail
• Netherlands to ban fossil heating from 2026, make heat pumps necessary
• The first electric fire truck is deployed in the US by the LAFD
• Conger ice shelf has collapsed
• Wolf seen in Brittany for first time in a century
• India bans all wheat exports over food security risk
• An engineer grows giant pyramids of ice to store water in the world’s highest desert
• California just ran on 100% renewable energy, but fossil fuels aren’t fading away
• 1GW project pipeline firms up in New Zealand
• Construction begins on Australia’s first gigawatt scale wind project
• New species of Chinese giant salamander discovered
• Results from mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers
• Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play
• As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?
• 9m deaths a year from pollution, the ‘largest existential threat’ to humans
• In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest
• Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry
• With Severe Drought, An Urgent Call To Rework Colorado River Pact
• "Former Interior Secretary Didn’t Violate Lobbying Laws, Watchdog Finds"
• Trump Nominees Still Control Key Mine Safety Agency in Biden’s 2nd Year
• "Pro-Trump Counties Continue To Suffer Far Higher Covid Death Tolls"
• Foresters Hope To Help Trees Migrate Amid Climate Change
• "Rare Monkeypox Case Confirmed In Massachusetts"
• "Biden Forest Plan Stirs Dispute Over What Counts As “Old”"
• "Extreme Heat Linked To Rise in US Death Rates: Study"
• 21 Democratic AGs File Motion To Intervene In Calif. Emissions Lawsuit
• "What the Insect Crisis Means for Food, Farming — and Humanity"