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I generally focus on conservation issues effecting biodiversity, land use/abuse, research, and job opportunities that I have come across. Most of the opportunities come from the Opps page and you can click on the button below to take you there.
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Conservation News ~ 21 August 2020

8/21/2020

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  • 1.6 million of gallons of produced water spilled so far in 2020
  • Gov McMaster calls for luxury ‘ecoresort’ plan for SC barrier island to be rejected
  • Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse
  • Agrochemicals and industrial waste threaten Argentina’s Gran Chaco
  • Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans
  • Washington Wildlife Officials gun down last survivors of Wedge Wolf Pack
  • More eggs harvested from last 2 Northern White Rhinos
  • Fears for endangered macaw as fire devastates Brazilian wetland
  • Thirty new deep-water species including bamboo corals, sponges discovered in the Galapagos
  • The Army Corps failed to enact endangered species protections for Willamette River salmon
  • California to hold hearing on listing Pacific Leatherbacks under state Endangered Species
  • Renewable energy corporations fight endangered species status for Joshua Trees
  • An elephant baby boom in one Kenyan National Park
  • In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands
  • Municipal Protected Area expanded in Ecuador’s most threatened ecosystem
  • US agrees to decide Pangolin protections
  • Elephant shrew lost to science for 52 years is rediscovered in Africa
  • Mauritius arrests captain of Japanese oil spill ship
  • 5 automakers lock in a deal on greenhouse gas pollution
  • Greenpeace activists occupy Danish North Sea oil platform
  • Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property assured
  • White House withdraws nomination of controversial attorney for top environment post
  • Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bees spotted a Illiniwek Forest Preserve
  • Quilt exhibit highlights endangered species
  • Walls of death – surge in illegal drift net threatens endangered species
  • American Lithium reports baseline biological survey confirms no endangered species
  • Endangered Species Act protections sought for a Northwest freshwater mussel
  • California delays endangered species status for Joshua Tree
  • Madagascar minister calls protected areas a ‘failure,’ seeks people-centric approach
  • White House green lights oil and gas development in ANWR
  • Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environment red flags
  • Washington wildlife officials gun down last survivors of Wedge Wolf Pack to protect cows
  • Sea turtle lays eggs on Los Boliches beach in Spain’s Malaga in first ever recording of turtle nesting in area
  • San Francisco votes to slash meat, dairy, and eggs served in hospitals and jails
  • Former CIRES director Konrad Steffen – man who sounded alarm on Greenland ice- dies in Greenland accident
  • US allows killing of hundreds of sea lions to save struggling salmon
  • Pools of water atop sea ice in the Arctic may lead it to melt away sooner than thought
  • 250 people protest captive animals in France
  • Bugs resort to several colours to protect themselves from predators
  • Lake Erie’s toxic green slime is getting worse with climate change
  • Another whale trapped in shark nets off Queensland
  • Sea otters in California estuaries surprise scientists with Eelgrass increase
  • 19 black families purchased 96.7 acres of land in the midst of protests and a pandemic
  • California’s only known wolf pack adds 8 pups
  • As wild areas become farmland, species that carry diseases flourish
  • Marine food webs could be radically altered by heating of oceans
  • China has freed 99 turtles that were rescued from smugglers
  • This Pacific Island nation plans to raise itself above the ocean to survive sea level rise
  • New catalysts efficiently turns carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals
  • Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return
  • Oil spill in Mauritius may thwart thirty years of conservation efforts
  • Black bear tranquilized, killed after locals admitted to luring animal for photos
  • Conservationists find new owl species in Trinidad
  • At least 19 new species discovered at Hainan’s tropical park
  • Green economy recovery: leading their emancipation
  • Environmental groups say water use at border wall threatening endangered species in Arizona
  • State Supreme Court rejects South Dakota bid to recover millions from oil giant BP
  • Endangered sea turtles shells disguised as blue plastic seized at MIA en route to Asia
  • Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps
  • Colombia will ban all cosmetic animal testing by 2024
  • Scorching temperatures in Death Valley will shatter records in West, Southwest
  • Bald Eagle attacks government drone and sends it to bottom of Lake Michigan
  • Sea life in Mauritius dying as massive oil spill threatens endangered species
  • Chief Hoskins establishes sovereignty commission in wake of McGirt decision
  • Forest Service authorizes one of largest timber sales in Wyoming history
  • Tourism collapse puts wildlife conservation in peril
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