Conservation News ~ 23 September 2019

• Extinction Rebellion: 91-year-old climate protestor arrested near port of Dover:
• California sues White House over revoking state’s authority to set car emission standards:
• Discovery of an endangered species in a well-known cave raises questions:
• Americans are waking up: two thirds say climate crisis must be addressed:
• Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shuts down:
• New bioreactor captures as much carbon as an acre of trees:
• Germany unveils $60 billion climate package:
• Researchers spot exotic creatures in marine national monument:
• Scientists discovered mysterious creature below Antarctica:
• Southern resident orcas spotted in Puget Sound:
• Australia is running out of drinking water:
• First ever Clouded Leopard debuts at Smithsonian’s National Zoo:
• 230 investors with USD $16.s trillion in AUM call for corporate action on deforestation, signaling support:
• Texas is drowning under one of the wettest storms in US history;
• Five most wanted Rhino poachers apprehended in Biswanath:
• New Zealand insect named after hobbit Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings:
• 6 new species found in Aarey in 10 years:
• Mass climate strike protests held around the world ahead of UN summit:
• Conservation group to buy world’s largest privately held Sequoia Forest for $15m:
• Distressed dolphin pictured comforting her pod before being slaughtered in mass killing:
• Ruling stops Pedal Power timber harvest near Springfield, Or:
• Tiny penguin released back into the wild after swimming from New Zealand to Australia:
• Isra Hirsi is 16, unbothered, and saving the planet:
• Scaling back: graduate invents plastic alternative from fish waste:
• California family find mountain lion lounging in their bathroom:
• Birds are vanishing from North America – there are 2.9 billion fewer birds than 50 years:
• Bald Eagles have found themselves a new home in suburbia:
• Colorful new gecko species described:
• White House slaps tariffs on solar panels in major blow to renewable energy:
• Texas hounds chase down rhino poachers in South Africa:
• Arkansas city paying homeless $9.25 an hour to collect trash:
• Un secretary general calls climate change an emergency:
• Deforestation increase dovetails with armed conflict in Colombia:
• Gran Chaco – South America’s second largest forest at risk of collapsing:
• We’ve been negligent  - Indonesia’s president says as fire crisis deepens:
• House democrats advance bill protecting lions, elephants from trophy hunting:
• Air pollution particles found on foetal side of placentas:
• Bristol Bay salmon are in hot water:
• Hadza wins global prize for developing solution on climate change:
• This sulfur-spewing Russian volcano is turning sunsets purple:
• South Korea confirms African swing fever outbreak:
• Outrage in China as Giant Panda on loan to Thailand zoo dies:
• England’s carnivorous sundew makes a comeback:
• 86 tigers rescued from Tiger Temple died in government custody:
• Amazon deforestation is driven by criminal networks:
• Beef and Dairy industries in death spiral, will collapse by 2030:
• A Giant Salamander that lived at London Zoo turned out to be a new species:
• Democrats propose bill to revoke White House endangered species:
• Ruffed Grouse could make Indiana’s Endangered Species:
• Sharks caught on drum lines in Australia must be released:
• This is not the Sixth Extinction, It’s the first extermination event:
• Obama meets with teen climate activist Greta Thunberg:
• Fewer people are taking up hunting, which has hunters worried about sport’s future:
• Greta Thunberg to congress: You’re not trying hard enough, sorry:
• Huge decline in songbirds linked to common insecticides:
• Canadians just crowdfunded $3 million to buy pristine land and save it from new development:
• Canada creates two huge ocean sanctuaries in the Arctic:
• Outrage as blue shark is cooked and served at Plymouth Seafood festival:
• Warming weather is seemingly bringing a new species of bat to DC:
• Scientists discover new species of ancient flying reptile in Canada:
• David Attenborough to front UK study on biodiversity loss:
• Once thought to be extinct, this luck clover has recovered enough to come off the ES list:
• SC eagle population soars:
• Youngest Kakapo chick of this season reaches 150 days old, meaning a record 213 kakapo:
• Major US insurer says it will not longer underwrite and invest in coal:
• Luxembourg Peace Prize: Dame Jane Goodall awarded 2019 prize for outstanding environmental peace:
• Protected areas best conserve mammalian diversity when connected with corridors:
• Desert Tortoise found in Mendocino undergoes surgery at UC Davis:
• California Governor says he will veto environmental regulations bill:
• Endangered sea turtle found impales with 3-foot long spear in Florida:
• New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren:
• Eastern Oregon Minnow removed from the Endangered Species list:
• US and Brazil agree to Amazon development:
• Its not cheaper to build new renewable than it is to build natural gas plants:
• Ottawa announces $8.3M to help rid Canadian waters of ghost gear:
• Indonesian draws fire to denial of transboundary haze problem:
• Plastic food packaging was most common beach trash in 2018:
• World losing battle against deforestation:
• Hundred of offshore fracking wells dump billions of gallons waste into the Gulf of Mexico:
• Japan’s new environmental minister calls for closing down all nuclear reactors to prevent another disaster:
• Hoary bat numbers declining at rate that suggests species in jeopardy in Pacific Northwest:
• Brazil environment minister to meet US climate denier group before UN summit: