Conservation News ~ 24 January 2020

• 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