Conservation News ~ 21 August 2020

• 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