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Conservation News ~ 24 April 2020

4/24/2020

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  • Group alleges that EPAs COVID enforcement policy violates the ESA
  • Images from a dropped phone reveal the ugly truth behind Bonobo trafficking
  • Milan’s plant to limit cars after COVID lockdown lauded as Excellent Example
  • Toxic air over London falls by 50% at busiest traffic spots
  • Colombia want to plant 180 million trees
  • Satellite data show Amazon rainforest likely drier, more fire-prone this year
  • Forest fires in Indonesia set to add toxic haze to COVID woes
  • Manila gets its skyline back as air quality improves amid COVID
  • Pandemic shutdown is speeding up the collapse of coal
  • As oil plummets, climate activists say now is the time to mobilize for a Green New Deal
  • Once-in-a-millennium megadrought is happening now in the Western United States
  • Sweden becomes the third European country to close its last coal power plant
  • Baby rhino rescued in Assam’s Haziranga
  • Rice genetically engineered to resist heat waves can also produce up to 20% more grain
  • USF researchers tested 2,500 fish 10 years after Deepwater – there was oil in all of them
  • Supreme Court rules beaches can be protected from sewage that flows underground
  • In famed Chico Mendes reserve, Brazil nut harvesters fight to save the forest
  • Baby leatherback sea turtles thriving due to COVID beach restrictions
  • Clemson study finds winter cover crop mix improves crop productivity
  • Astronomers find formula for subsurface oceans in exomoons
  • International coalition urges scientists to leave animals out of COVID research
  • Publix is buying excess milk and produce from farmers and donating it to food banks
  • Summer’s bushfires released more carbon dioxide than Australia does in a year
  • Tyson shuts down largest pork factory amid COVID
  • With fishing fleets tied up due to COVID, marine life has a chance to recover
  • The US Court of International Trade ruled in favor to protect the endangered Vaquita
  • Thousands of acres of fruit and veggies are being left to rot in Florida fields
  • California delivers blow to White House’s plan for extinction in Bay-Delta
  • COVID underscores urgency of holistic community-based approaches to conservation
  • New study predicts the ocean ecosystem will collapse this decade
  • Ice-free Arctic summers now very likely even with climate action
  • American Robins now migrate 12 days earlier than in 1994
  • South Korea to implement Green New Deal after ruling party election win
  • WHO developing guidance on wet markets
  • Coca-cola and Pepsi falling short on pledges over plastic
  • Before the next pandemic, an ambitious push to catalog the 1.67 million viruses thought to exist in wildlife
  • Canada Goose is ditching virgin fur for good
  • Microplastics found for first time in Antarctic ice where krill source for food
  • On the brink of a coal boom, Papuans ask who will benefit
  • New species from the abyssal ocean hints at incredible deep sea diversity
  • Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired
  • Citi vows to stop working with thermal coal-mining companies
  • New ethane-munching microbes discovered at hot vents
  • Air pollution may be key contributor to COVID
  • Lewis MacAdams, famed crusader for the LA River, dies at 75
  • Lions reclaim territory shut down by COVID
  • The government is forcing airlines to fly nearly empty planes to get bailout money
  • Poachers kill 3 near-extinct giant ibises amid COVID pressure in Cambodia
  • Panic buying amid pandemic drives scarcity in medicinal herbs in Sri Lanka
  • Thailand’s captive elephants face starvation amid COVID tourism freeze
  • China’s pangolin black market exposed in bombshell David Attenborough investigation
  • Amazon invests $10 million to help conserve forests as part of climate change plan
  • ORNL researcher helps discover new species of cave snail
  • New species of wood snake emerges in the Western Ghats mottled in grey-brown
  • Bonnet Carre Spillway harms sea turtles, manatees and other endangered species
  • Scientists uncover principles for self-assembly
  • For first time ever, oil futures go below zero
  • Akagera Park loses one of five black rhinos from European zoos
  • Photos of wild tiger cubs in Thailand rekindles hope for species
  • COVID lockdown boosts numbers of Thailand’s rare sea turtles
  • NRDC and partners sue after EPA gives pass to polluters during pandemic
  • 24 firms in China exposed for using endangered Leopard bones in traditional medicine
  • Four new species of beetles identified in Sri Lanka
  • Extinction of threatened megafauna would lead to huge loss in functional diversity
  • Fog Harp harvests water even in the lightest fog
  • New species of tiny blenny could explain origins of Hawaiian endemic fish
  • Judge – Endangered Species habitat on Big Island must be protected
  • COVID freezes research, threatening endangered species
  • Rare Snow Leopard pair spotted in Uttarakhand’s Nanda Devi
  • Camera trap provides first-ever official record of the critically endangered Sumatran tiger in Batang Angkola forest
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