Conservation News ~ 24 April 2020

• 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