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Conservation News ~ 22 May 2020

5/22/2020

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  • New Frog species the size of a 5p coin already ‘critically endangered’
  • New species of dragonfly in the Konkan
  • New pygmy seahorse discovered, first of its kind in Africa
  • New program launches to help the environment, economy in Tucson
  • China to allocate $57bn to environment protection
  • Giant tectonic plate under Indian Ocean is breaking in two
  • Wildlife thrives in closed US national parks
  • Daily global CO2 emissions ‘cut to 2006 levels’ during height of COVID
  • A Philippine village on lockdown delivers nearly 300 turtle hatchlings to sea
  • Decades of tree data reveal forests under attack
  • Sprawling growth devours SC farmland
  • NRDC stopped a fracked gas pipeline in NY
  • More than 100 elephants die in Botswana in suspected anthrax outbreak
  • Traces from nuclear-weapons tests offer clues to whale sharks’ ages
  • Gold Coast whale rescuer escapes fine for saving calf
  • Woman attacked by bison at reopened Yellowstone National Park
  • EU pledges to raise $20bn a year to boost biodiversity
  • COVID stalls RSPB rescue of albatross chicks from giant mice
  • Projeto Harpia- Saving Amazon’s largest raptor for more than 20 years
  • North America’s looming salamander pandemic: are we ready?
  • Historic agreement gives Monarch butterflies the ‘right-of-way’
  • Ecuador’s Kichwa implement innovative approach to rainforest conservation
  • Indonesia may bar citizens from working on foreign fishing boats after spate of deaths
  • China offers buyout to wildlife farmers in response to pandemic
  • Tech made to find galaxies sets its sights on wildfires
  • Endangered Sumatran tiger found dead, ensnared in Riau
  • Wuhan has banned the eating of wild animals
  • Oceanographic conditions influence the origin of new species of sharks and rays
  • Analysis of bird species reveals how wings adapted to their environment and behavior
  • Endangered pygmy hippo born at Sd Zoo for first time in over 30 years
  • Judge declines to dismiss 18 states’ challenge to revised Endangered Species regulations
  • Pacific Fisher again denied endangered species protection in Oregon
  • Coca-Cola and Carlsberg introduce plant-based bottles that degrade in a year
  • Siberia experiences hottest spring on record, fueling wildfires
  • Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia
  • Norway’s sovereign wealth fund drops major Brazil miner, utility from its portfolio
  • In Indonesia’s new rice plan, experts see the blueprint of an epic past failure
  • Lobstermen turn to kelp farming in the face of climate crisis
  • EU to halve pesticides by 2030 to protect bees, biodiversity
  • New species of seaweed and algae discovered
  • Court tells Federal agencies to review coal mining impacts on endangered species
  • Court nixes Green Groups’ challenge to Endangered Species rules
  • The Arctic is unraveling as a massive heat wave grips the region
  • New Asian carp operation planned for East Peoria
  • Economists put a price tag on living whales in Brazil: $82 billion
  • In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture
  • Indonesian miners eyeing EV nickel boom seek to dump waste into the sea
  • Groundbreaking research rewrites Australia’s ancient history
  • First discovered deep creatures called Elvis worms – four new species
  • Caltrans to plant native trees under agreement for Niles Canyon project
  • Extinction of threatened marine megafauna would lead to devastating loss in functionality
  • Coal industry will never recover after COVID pandemic
  • Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth two billion years ago
  • Wildlife Services to cut back killings pending environmental review
  • Five new and rare little brown frog species discovered in China’s Yunnan near Myanmar
  • Historic land swap to benefit endangered species and mining finalized
  • US fund that supports Sumatran rhino research faces deep cuts
  • 15,000 endangered turtles were smuggled to China, confiscated by Mexico
  • Moved from temple ponds to the wild, black softshell turtles walk towards revival
  • Conservation group cries foul over logging old-growth forest in Caycuse River watershed
  • 3 billion people could live in places as hot as the Sahara by 2070 unless we tackle climate change
  • World’s biggest wealth fund dumps $3billion in fossil fuels
  • Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law
  • Equinor, Shell and Total sign off on building world’s first carbon capture network
  • Archaeologists uncover a lost world and extinct ecosystem
  • Legendary entomologist Terry Erwin passes away at age 79
  • New Tesla battery poised to reshape auto economics
  • Climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease
  • Michigan adds invasive marbled crayfish to prohibited species list
  • Bizarre new species of parasitic fungi discovered on Twitter
  • Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss
  • To get COVID relief, companies in Canada will have to disclose climate impacts
  • Australia’s NSW south coast residents battling to save unburnt bushland ask Susan Ley to intervene
  • Happy heap of mountain gorillas sprawl in glade
  • Aircraft to spray invasive moths in northwest Washington
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