Conservation News ~ 21 April 2022

• Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health
• Forest loss shows stopgap decrees failing to protect Brazil’s Isolated Indigenous
• Outcry in Malaysia as failure to replant forests sparks ‘cover-up’ accusation
• International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study
• Colombian Indigenous community waits in poverty as courts weigh ownership of ancestral land
• Are conservation trust funds part of the answer for ongoing land protection? (commentary)
• Sharing a marine reserve with fishers: Q&A with Belize Fisheries’ Adriel Castañeda
• Monkeys, porcupines team up to destroy crops, Nepal’s farmers say
• Death of last river dolphin in Laos rings alarm bells for Mekong population
• Sri Lanka grapples with the problem of its fishers plundering waters abroad
• From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention
• Of rats and bats: Hundreds of mammal species still unidentified, study says
• Tiger politics and tiger conservation: Where the stakeholders are going wrong (commentary)
• In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield
• Climate pledges could limit warming to 2C. What’s needed is action, study says
• Podcast: Who owns the companies destroying rainforests in the heart of New Guinea?
• Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands
• "Biden Plans to Open More Public Land to Drilling"
• "Scott Pruitt, Former EPA Leader, Files for Oklahoma Senate Run"
• "Proposal To Restore Sovereignty To Tribes In Maine Advances"
• Black, Latino Communities Have Higher Level Of Oil Drilling, Pollution
• Fight Brewing Over Calif. Ballot Measure To Reduce Single-Use Plastics
• Green Infrastructure Helps Cities With Climate Change. Do We Need More?
• "Climate Toll On Arctic Bases: Sunken Runways, Damaged Roads"
• Wind Power Overtook Coal, Nuclear For First Time in U.S. on March 29
• "Companies, Not FDA, Approve Most Chemicals In Food"
• To Fight Climate Despair, Christian Ecologist Says Science Isn’t Enough
• Six arrested after climate activists scale oil tanker in central London
• 80 critically endangered spotted tree frogs to be released into Kosciuszko national park, Australia
• New shrimp species discovered in Andaman sea
• Biologists are discovering a new species every day in Norway
• Wildflower believed to be extinct for 40 years spotted in Ecuador
• Lawsuit Leads To Critical Habitats For Endangered Species In The Pacific
• Scientists discover 17 new millipede species, one named after Taylor Swift
• Amid extinctions, forest corridors aim to save rare birds in Brazil’s northeast
• In media coverage of wildlife crime, ‘feedback loops’ entrench biases: Study
• Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon
• Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests
• Colorado R. Tops 10 Most Endangered Rivers In America
• "Biden To Tout Climate Policies For Earth Day"
• "People Of Color More Likely To Be Harmed By Pesticides, Study Finds"
• Conference Comes Up With $16 Billion In Pledges To Safeguard Ocean Health
• Natural Gas Prices Are Soaring. What Does It Mean For Climate?
• "‘Frontline’ Review: Why The Climate Changed But We Didn’t"
• "US Wildlife Officials Aim To Address Illegal Wolf Killings"
• As Drought Hammers Mono Lake, Thirsty L.A. Must Look Elsewhere For Water
• "Supreme Court Denies Claim To Portion Of Yakama Lands"
• Blue Corn And Melons: The Seed Keepers Reviving Ancient, Resilient Crops
• ‘No’ to corporate-driven tourism development in Komodo National Park (commentary)
• Indonesian trade official, palm oil execs charged in cooking oil crisis
• Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals
• In Brazil’s northeast, family farmers are guardians of creole seeds
• Antarctic Sea Ice Hit Lowest Level Since Satellite Observations Began, Study Finds
• South Africa declares national emergency as flood toll crosses 440
• "Biden Restores Climate to Landmark Environmental Law, Reversing Trump"
• "Biden Launches $6Bn Effort To Save America’s Distressed Nuclear Plants"
• Deep Sea Gold Rush Raises Questions About Protection Authority
• "Supreme Court Denies Penobscot Indian Nation Appeal"
• "New CDC Team: A ‘Weather Service’ To Forecast What’s Next In Pandemic"
• "Environmentalists Target Mountains of Fertilizer Waste"
• Zombie Kentucky Strip Mines Produce Safety, Environmental Violations
• "Climate-Change Risks Get the Attention of Real Estate Investors"
• "California Leads Effort To Let Rivers Roam, Lower Flood Risk"
• "Parks Coalition Presses Biden To Establish 6 New Protected Monuments"
• Legal Action Defends Endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher
• Birth of endangered Hawaiian monk seal caught on camera
• Biden restores climate safeguards in key environmental law, reversing Trump
• Remarkable new species of deep-sea crown jelly discovered in depths of Monterey Bay
• Canadian miners get high-level lobbying boost for Brazilian Amazon projects
• Trees and soil at the forest’s edge store more carbon than we thought, studies reveal
• New report pieces together toll of environmental damage in Venezuela in 2021
• Amateur naturalists deserve more support and fewer barriers (commentary)
• Funding for women-led conservation remains tiny, but that’s changing fast
• Road projects threaten integrity of Uganda’s mountain gorilla stronghold
• Mine pits expose the holes in Indonesia’s plan to relocate its capital
• Tropical trees’ growth and CO2 intake hit by more extreme dry seasons
• "Rapidly Moving Wildfire In Arizona Destroys Dozens Of Structures"
• "Climate Change, Big Agriculture Combine To Threaten Insects"
• South Asia Toxic Air: Vehicle Exhaust, Farm Burning and In-Home Cooking
• "BLM On Pace To Exceed 25K-Megawatt Renewable Energy Goal"
• "Report: Oregon Has $5.3B Invested In Fossil Fuel Companies"
• "Energy Shift Creates Opening For ‘World’s Largest Batteries’"
• "Why Are Nature-Based Solutions on Climate Being Overlooked?"
• "Can Portland Be a Climate Leader Without Reducing Driving?"
• "Housing Crisis Propels High Death Toll in South Africa Floods"
• "How Climate Change Is Reshaping The World"
• Gigantic floating fossil fuel gas station now runs on electric power
• THDC, Rajasthan sign agreement to develop 10,000 MW solar projects
• Scientists achieve record energy efficiency for thin solar panels
• NASA shows off spacecraft visiting $10 quintillion asteroid
• ANL completes a sailing on low emission biofuel in Oceania
• New technology to effectively remove 99% of carbon dioxide from air
• New York clears $4.5 billion plan to bring hydropower to Big Apple