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Conservation News ~ 22 November 2019

11/22/2019

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  • Ancient Kansas shark is new species
  • US Fed agency plans are not adequate to prevent 99.8% of US Endangered Species from suffering
  • Enviro groups threaten lawsuit over Endangered Species Act
  • All but one of the US’s Endangered Species are vulnerable to climate change
  • World’s donkeys being decimated by demand for Chinese medicine
  • Oxford dictionary declares ‘climate emergency’ the word of 2019
  • Coldplay pause touring until they can offer ‘environmentally beneficial’ concerts
  • Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch
  • One-third of tropical African plant species at risk of extinction
  • EasyJet to become first airline to offset all carbon emissions
  • Kruger National Park rejoices after good rainfall
  • Brazil works behind the scenes to greenlight Manuas-Boa Vista transmission line
  • In Indonesian waters, filter feeders can ingest dozens to hundreds of microplastic particles every hour
  • Illegal logging persists in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Indonesian politician at heart of permit scandal dies ahead of graft trial
  • Coca Cola is world’s largest plastic polluter for second straight year
  • Dragonfly swarms over Sri Lanka spark interest and highlight threats to them and damselflies
  • Decades after abandoned farmlands, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover
  • Oregon Capitol sit in opposing Jordan Cove LNG pipeline
  • Rare fish-eating crocodile confirmed nesting in southwest Nepal after 37 years
  • Climate change reassessment prompts call for a ‘more sober’ discourse
  • Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans
  • Decapitated Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia
  • Tanzania rallies to protect world’s largest population of lions
  • Agroforestry program in Appalachia receives $590,000 in federal funding
  • NASA confirms water vapor on Jupiter’s moon Europa
  • Fires leave a million Indonesians gasping
  • House approves bill to eliminate sale of shark fins nationwide
  • NASA has found sugar in meteorites that crashed to Earth
  • Cheetah researchers accused of spying sentenced in Iran
  • New dynamic strategy to protect biodiversity – transient protected areas
  • Amazon wildfires proved to be caused by deforestation
  • Giant vegan billboard arrives at Waterloo
  • Ancient Komodo dragon-like animals had heads proportionally larger than dinosaurs
  • Team of scientists discovered 140 huge mysterious drawings in Peru
  • Judge orders search of MPCA computers in PolyMet challenge
  • Climate impacts ‘to cost world $7.9 trillion’ by 2050
  • Beavers to be released by National Trust as flood control
  • Emirates president thanks Greta Thunberg for helping change
  • New species of seaweed uncovered
  • New Mexico Environment Department requests $1.2m to study toxic plume
  • Light pollution is key ‘bringer of insect apocalypse’
  • Target meets 2020 goal to install 500 rooftop solar arrays ahead of schedule
  • New Panda park in China will be much bigger than Yellowstone
  • Plankton biodiversity mapped globally
  • California Governor cracks down on fracking
  • Black-throated finch wins 2019 Australian bird of the year
  • NOAA fisheries just released thousands of captive bred white abalone
  • Climate groups can’t run ads about global warming on Twitter, but Exxon can
  • Deforestation in the Amazon has hit its highest level in more than a decade
  • Keystone spill has affected nearly 10x more land than was estimated
  • European Investment bank drops fossil fuel funding
  • Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
  • Companies that fail to tackle climate change will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange, Labour Party proposes
  • Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown
  • Mozambique’s newly empowered rangers, courts catch up with poachers, loggers
  • New hope for one of world’s more endangered reptiles
  • VSU bioblitz discovers new species
  • Idris Elba has parasitic wasp named after him
  • Major new project to use nature-based solutions to help Laos adapt to climate change
  • California to stop buying from automakers that backed the White House on emissions
  • Kruger National Park elephant has very close encounter with ranger
  • Restigouche Wilderness Waterway on its way to becoming a provincial park
  • Taiwan’s Pygmy Seahorses have a robust social media presence
  • Peru signs agreement to end deforestation caused by palm oil by 2021
  • We have broken nature into more than 990,000 little pieces – the same area should be 73,000 fragments
  • Feral horses gallop to the rescue of butterflies in distress
  • Slow Lorises and other endangered animals rescued after crackdowns in Hyderbad
  • Newly discovered fossil bird fills in gap between dinosaurs and modern fliers
  • Ant expert discovers new Utah species in backyard
  • Two of America’s biggest coal plants closed this month
  • Rhino, calf electrocuted by collapsed power pylon in South Africa
  • An economist quantifies how valuable whales are to fighting climate change
  • World’s largest public bank ditches oil and coal in victory for the climate movement
  • Botany student unearths three presumed extinct species
  • Colombia’s carbon tax could help protect the Amazon rainforest
  • Climate impacts 626% worse than expected for intact forest loss
  • SRP plans to install Arizona’s biggest battery for massive solar plant
  • Federal judge blocks the West Elk Coal Mine expansion after environmental groups sue
  • Indigenous activist wins prestigious environmental and peace award
  • 14 month old lioness brutally declawed in Gaza Zoo so visitors can play with her
  • Sage Grouse court order trims energy lease auction in Nevada
  • Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra
  • Activists hold conference deep in the Amazon
  • Rapid expansion of protected areas around the world failing to reduce human pressures on land
  • New species of ancient bird found in Japan
  • India seeks Asian Elephant’s inclusion on global endangered species list
  • Victoria to ban logging of native forests under groundbreaking new policy
  • Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
  • Michelin-starred Chef Dominique Crenn announces all of her restaurants are no meat free
  • Angkor Wat is finally putting a stop to its elephant rides
  • Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst
  • Pelosi signs bill making animal cruelty a federal crime
  • New species found in Amsterdam park
  • Researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
  • World’s largest bank cuts finance for coal 
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