Conservation News ~ 22 May 2020

• 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