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Conservation News ~ 24 January 2020

1/24/2020

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  • Colorado River’s Humpback Chubmight be removed from endangered species list
  • New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah
  • White House guts environmental safeguards for US Streams and Wetlands
  • Red Tide in Mexico kills nearly 300 endangered Green Sea Turtles
  • Four new species of adorable Walking Sharks discovered
  • White House weakened environmental laws after BP lobbying
  • Nevada man sentenced for trafficking in endangered species
  • Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China
  • Police boss arrested while hunting rhino with a Zambian poacher
  • Insecticides become more toxic to honey bees
  • BP’s CEO chides AOC and Bernie Sanders for their completely unrealistic Green New Deal ideas
  • US drinking water widely contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
  • Starbucks CEO pledges to add more plant-based food options
  • Oregon Department of State Lands rejects Extension request on key permit for proposed Jordan Cove LNG
  • Scotland to reach this year 100% renewable energy goal
  • Thunberg blasts world leaders at Davos, telling them to ditch fossil fuels
  • New Zealand has been a life-raft for unique species
  • Closing the Ozone Hole has helped slow Arctic warming
  • Parks Canada says no to gondola proposed from Banff townset to Mount Norquay
  • Crystal Geyser pleads guilty to knowingly dumping arsenic into California’s public water
  • Liberia expands a key elephant park again
  • Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried
  • Montana pays record amount for predator losses in 2019
  • Wet winter is good for the common frog
  • British Colombia is now home to a new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area
  • EU lays out 1 trillion-euro plan to support Green Deal
  • New species of antibiotic resistant bacteria found in infected wound
  • Mongabay editor arrested in Indonesia
  • 850 coyotes and foxes killed in 2-day multi-state wildlife killing contest
  • US Supreme Court has cleared the way for water crisis victims to sue Flint, Michigan officials
  • Game camera photographs Grey Wolf in new territory inside Jackson County
  • New species of Titi Monkey discovered in Brazil
  • Peruvian authorities seize vessel with 12.3 million seahorses
  • Oil and gas sector ‘losing its social license to operate’, UK boss warns
  • Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees
  • New colony of penguins discovered on a remote island in Argentina
  • RBA told to ‘mobilise all forces’ to save the economy from climate change
  • After roughly a century, bighorn sheep return to Pyramid Lake, Nevada
  • Black Rhino population shows steady growth
  • Fukushima reborn as Japan’s wind and solar hub
  • Microwaving sewage waste may make it safe to use as fertilizer on crops
  • Natural History Museum, London declares a planetary emergency
  • Indigenous people reveal ‘lost’ starry night toad to scientists
  • Deforestation clips howler monkey calls
  • Penguin species in Antarctica hit hard by climate change
  • Climate refugees can’t be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling
  • AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought
  • Pentagon causing toxic pollution by burning foam
  • Patagonia’s CEO is donating company’s entire $10m tax cut to fight climate change
  • Formulations of glyphosate-based weedkillers are toxic
  • California will be hit hard as White House weakens clean water protections
  • Bronx Zoo has been included Defense of Animals’ annual list of worst zoos for elephants
  • Dungeness crab larvae already showing effects of coastal acidification
  • China moves to phase out single-use plastics
  • Spain city mayor wants to turn zoo into environmental education centre and release ‘prisoner’ animals
  • Large African herbivores have helped to repair their environment
  • Contentious Jumbo Valley to become Indigenous protected area after feds provide $21m
  • Beloved lioness Isis dies at Brookfield Zoo after apparent fall
  • Feathers evolved 80 million years before birds appeared
  • A national park takes shape in Argentina as the forest disappears
  • One of four North Atlantic right whale calves spotted so far this breeding season struck by ship
  • New species of prehistoric scorpions may have been the first explorers of the land
  • Newhouse aims to change Endangered Species Act
  • $500,000 available for coral restoration projects in honor of Dr. Ruth Gates
  • EU unveils plan to dedicate a quarter of its budget fighting climate change with 1 trillion euro Green Deal
  • Sunflower Electric abandons proposed Kansas coal power plant
  • Norwegian company fires US executive amidst rising public sentiment against trophy hunting
  • Major companies pledge not to ship along controversial Arctic routes
  • New Mexico approves trapping of state wildlife, further endangering Mexican Grey Wolves
  • Carnival slapped with a $20 million fine after it was caught dumping trash into the ocean, again
  • Microsoft wants to capture all of the carbon dioxide it’s ever emitted
  • Tidal energy project in Canada gets green light from authorities
  • London’s new year fireworks left sky full of metal particles
  • Los Cerritos Wetlands Restoration draft EIR to be unveiled
  • Panera plans to slash meat to offer 50 percent plant-based menu
  • Wallace & Gromit’s creators make new animation to try to save the seas
  • Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time
  • Mediterranean sea ecology altered by invasive species
  • Climate change to drive massive investment shift
  • Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list
  • Barcelona declares climate emergency, vows to halve emissions by 2030
  • Over 400 rare Asian giant softshell turtle eggs found in Cambodia
  • Florida to purchase 20000 acres of Everglades wetlands to prevent oil drilling
  • Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish
  • US lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber
  • Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away
  • Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo
  • Alien-like coral discovered in Japan’s Toba City recognized as new species
  • Newly-created northern White Rhino embryo could save species from brink of extinction
  • Protecting BWCA is better for economy than mining
  • Number of rare Arkansas Darters in rise at Wilson Springs Preserve
  • 80% of Australia’s Blue Mountains and 50% of Gondwana rainforests burn in bushfires
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