Conservation News ~ 21 January 2022

• ‘We’re making babies’: After years in decline, Okanagan salmon are back
• An icefish colony discovered in Antarctica is world's largest fish breeding ground
• Newport Beach philanthropists donate $50 million to wildlife corridor in Tehachapi Mountains
• Large herbivores may improve an ecosystem’s carbon persistence
• Elephants dying from eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump
• New chief scientist, Katherine Calvine, wants NASA to be about climate science, no just space
• Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture
• Predator species help to buffer climate change impacts on biodiversity
• Half this year’s little penguin chicks on WA’s Penguin Island wiped out as colony dwindles
• Conservation groups sue regulators, pharmaceutical company over crab pens
• Gabon minister suspends shrimp fishery and expels purse seiner that tormented two humpback whales
• 93-year-old nature-lover donates the island he protected for decades
• Lawsuit challenges Point Reyes Ranching, Elk-Killing plan
• New Mexico releases Wildlife Corridors Action Plan
• Prince Williams seeks nominees for $1 million Earthshot prize
• China to host crucial meeting in a bid to save nature
• Australian researchers baffled as endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens breed outside season
• More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
• Snow Leopard at Illionois Zoo dies after contracting Covid
• World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time
• NY governor backs nation’s first statewide gas ban
• Anubis, the Mexican gray wolf, was shot and killed
• 'Highly unusual': new species of earthworm discovered in Broken Hill, Australia
• New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis
• In hot water: Ocean warming hits another record high on climate change
• By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean
• A jaguar refuge in Mexico is an ecological island in the midst of threats
• Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar
• Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation
• Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms
• Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)
• Analysts point to logging and mining to explain Solomon Islands unrest
• Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters
• In untangling a taxonomic web, Sri Lankan researchers describe seven new jumping spiders
• 1st Images Of Tonga Damage Show Entire Communities Covered In Thick Ash
• "Federal Pipeline Agency Shifts Focus To Cut Methane"
• "China's Coal Production Hit Record Levels in 2021"
• 150 Ex-EPA Staffers Ask Virginia Lawmakers To Oppose Wheeler Nomination
• "DOT To Allot $27B To Fix Bridges, Ensure Climate Resilience"
• Fed Chair Jerome Powell Bucks a Global Trend on Climate Change
• "Plastic Crisis Needs Binding Treaty, Report Says"
• "Science Is Trying To Conserve The Monarch Butterfly’s Forests"
• "Elephants Dying From Eating Plastic Waste in Sri Lankan Dump"
• Big Discovery Beneath Antarctic Seas: A Giant Icefish Breeding Colony
• "Drinking Water, Ash Big Concern As Tonga Assesses Damage After Tsunami"
• "Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons Of Diesel Near New Orleans"
• "Clean Water Act Policy Could Spur Widespread Disarray"
• "Finland, Sweden And Norway To Cull Wolf Population"
• "Supreme Court Shot-Or-Test Rule Freeze Hits Agency Powers"
• "Biden Nominates Climate Champ As Fed’s Bank Cop"
• "Lead Ammo Hampers The Bald Eagle Rebound in the Northeast US"
• "Scottish Auction For Offshore Windfarm Permits Expected To Raise £860m"
• "Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon Gold Seeps Into Supply Chains"
• "Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger."
• "US Plans $50B Wildfire Fight Where Forests Meet Civilization"
• "Interior Reveals Plans For Orphan Well Cleanup"
• Ecuador Expands Protections Around Galápagos, Makes Highway For Sea Life
• "How Coal Holds On In America"
• How Utility Convinced Georgia to Let It Bury Toxic Waste in Groundwater
• "Tightened Federal Water Protections Won’t Slow Some Projects"
• "Inside The Effort To Uncage A Bipartisan Wildlife Bill"
• "Power Companies Back EPA Climate Authority At Supreme Court"
• "Here’s What Scientists Know About the Tonga Volcano Eruption"
• "What Do You Do With An Invasive Army Of Crayfish Clones?"
• US plans $50B wildfire fight where forests meet suburbia
• New lizard species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
• Scientists discover tarantula-killing worms: New parasite named after actor Jeff Daniels
• Amid Pandemic, Tribal-Run Conservation in Africa Proves Resilient
• We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says
• As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change
• Pesticides released into Brazil’s Amazon to degrade rainforest and facilitate deforestation
• In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure
• As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout
• For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)
• ‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions
• ‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand
• Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests
• In Sri Lanka, a wild cat thrives in the unlikely urban jungle of Colombo
• In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods
• Bare-faced curassows return to Argentina’s Iberá after 50-year absence
• Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report
• 7 Latin American primate species among the 25 most endangered in the world
• A new species of tarantula discovered by Thai YouTube star
• "Biden Resets BBB: ‘I Think We Can Break The Package Up’"
• "Committee OKs Wildlife Bill, But Partisan Divisions Remain"
• 450+ Scientists Call On PR Firms To Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Clients
• Winter Gas Bill From Hell: Oklahomans Face Paying $1.4Bn Over Snowstorm
• "What Canada Wants To Do With Its Decades-Old Pileup Of Nuclear Waste"
• "National Monument Proposed For Nevada Site Sacred To Tribes"
• "After Rain Burst, California Salmon Reclaim Old Spawnaing Grounds"
• Corps To Focus On Supply Chain, Climate Change With $14B In Spending
• Florida’s Red Tides Worsened by Pollution, Climate Change
• Exxon Using An Unusual Law To Intimidate Critics Over Its Climate Denial
• Gators fouled by diesel spill get a scrubbing, teeth cleaned
• Giant pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti
• Oregon Zoo has first California Condor egg of 2022
• Haven’t been seen for 25 years – rains bring salmon back to California streams
• Asiatic cheetah Homino spotted in Bafgh for 1st time in years
• Seeing 1,000 glorious fin whales back from near extinction is a rare glimmer of hope
• ‘Rural women in Zimbabwe are in constant contact with climate change’: Q&A with Shamiso Mupara
• At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero
• Study finds resilient, frequent-fire forests have far fewer trees
• "‘Build Back Better’ Hit a Wall, but Climate Action Could Move Forward"
• VP Harris To Announce Wildfire Money In Visit To California On Friday
• New Research Shows Health Risks to Children Mount as Temperatures Rise
• "White House Tees Up Historic $1B Everglades Funding"
• "A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway."
• "Peru: 21 Beaches Polluted By Spill Linked To Tonga Eruption"
• Iowa, Texas GOPers Brag on Biden Infrastructure Bill They Opposed
• Report IDs Big Box Stores as Opportunity for Rooftop Solar
• "Bipartisan Lawmakers Announce Climate Adaptation Bill"
• Explorers Discover Pristine Coral Reef That Could Hold Climate Lessons