Conservation News ~ 24 September 2021

• "UN Warns of ‘Catastrophic Pathway’ With Current Climate Pledges"
• "BLM Returns Headquarters To D.C."
• Facebook's New Climate Change Misinformation Effort Falls Short: Group
• "Growing California Wildfire Spares Group Of Giant Sequoias"
• "Judge: Construction Can Continue On Most Of $1B Corridor"
• "Romanian Forest Attack Highlights Illegal Logging ‘Scourge’"
• "How Can New York City Prepare for the Next Ida? Here’s a To-Do List."
• "Drought Tests Centuries-Old Water Traditions In New Mexico"
• "The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats"
• All National Zoo’s Lions And Tigers Have Tested Positive For Coronavirus
• 11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found
• Researchers express alarm as Arctic multiyear sea ice hits record low
• With coral cover halved, curbing climate change is only way to slow the loss
• Faroe Islands to evaluate traditional hunt after slaughter of 1,400 dolphins
• For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners
• Railroad and mine projects stir up anxiety in rural Brazil communities
• Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change
• For Indonesian MPs, Indigenous rights may be bad for business, report says
• The secret lives of common hippos | Candid Animal Cam
• African Parks secures $100M for conservation in Africa
• Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon is a brake on deforestation and may start generating carbon credits
• Small cats should be a conservation priority, says Panthera’s new board chair Jonathan Ayers
• Extinction of indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants
• What the Mauritius kestrel can teach us about wildlife reintroductions
• Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?
• Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says
• ‘Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done’, says John Kamanga
• Oregon Targets Remaining Members of Wolf Family After Killing Two Pups to Protect Cows
• A Plan to Kill 300 Wolves in Wisconsin Has Sparked Outrage Among Tribal Nations
• New species of jellyfish named after USF professor
• Dancing, starry dwarf and narrow-mouthed: new species make India a frog paradise
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Initiate Status Review of Gray Wolf in the Western U.S.
• Thanks to the Yurok Tribe, condors will return to the Pacific Northwest
• Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species
• Cloudy and cool: climate prospects from mid-latitude tree planting, study
• The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies
• "China Pledges to Stop Building Coal-Burning Power Plants Abroad"
• Biden Vows To Double Climate Aid For Vulnerable Nations
• Will Taxpayers Bear Cost Of Cleaning Up America’s Abandoned Oil Wells?
• "6 Tribes Sue Wisconsin To Try To Stop November Wolf Hunt"
• "Michigan Plans 1st U.S. Charging Road For Electric Vehicles"
• "Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers"
• "Tar Sands Pipeline Is Sucking Water From Minnesota Watersheds"
• "Turkey’s Erdogan: Refugee Crisis From Climate Change Coming"
• "After Ida, U.S. Cities Eye More Equal Resilience Plans"
• Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Yes
• "Biden Confronts Extreme Heat, A Silent Climate Killer"
• "Canadians Have Re-Elected A Liberal Minority Government"
• U.N. Chief, UK PM Increase Pressure On Leaders For Climate Change Funds
• Dakota Access Pipeline Asks Supreme Court To Scrap Environmental Study
• "COVID Has Killed About As Many Americans As The 1918-19 Flu"
• "Interior Secretary Signs Montana Tribes Water Rights Compact"
• "Why Saving World’s Peatlands Can Help Stabilize the Climate"
• Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft U.S. Climate Plan
• "New Evidence of Corruption at EPA Chemicals Division"
• Extinction of Indigenous Languages Harms Knowledge Of Medicinal Plants
• "Reconciliation Timing Slips As Democrats Continue To Feud"
• EPA To Cut Greenhouse Gases Thousands Of Times More Powerful Than CO2
• "WHO Slashes Guideline Limits on Air Pollution From Fossil Fuels"
• Trump FWS Broke The Law In Refusing To Protect Joshua Trees, Court Rules
• "John Kerry’s Sales Pitch to Save the Planet"
• "California’s Reliance on Dams Puts Fish in Hot Water"
• Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Its 12th-Lowest Minimum Extent On Record
• Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans' Power Grid. Residents Suffered
• Water Usage In S. Calif. Rose, Despite Newsom's Call To Cut Back: Data
• "Nitrogen: The Environmental Crisis You Haven’t Heard Of Yet"
• 8 Siamese Crocodile Hatchlings Discovered in Cambodia Give Endangered Species Hope
• New checklist aims to tackle racism in conservation science at academy level
• When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong
• Countering Bolsonaro’s UN speech, Greenpeace releases Amazon deforestation photos
• Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet
• Fires bear down on Brazil park that’s home to jaguars, maned wolves
• Jane Goodall launches effort in support of planting 1 trillion trees by 2030
• Forest fragmentation split up this lizard’s population. It’s no longer the same
• Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows
• Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?
• "UN Summit Seeks To Fix Food’s Many Problems, But Draws Fire"
• EPA Issues Rule To Sharply Reduce Use Of HFCs, Driver Of Climate Change
• 'Death Sentence': Low-Lying Nations Implore Faster UN Action On Climate
• "Drilling on the Arctic Beach"
• Gov. Newsom Signs $15 Billion Climate Package At Sequoia National Park
• FERC Blames Texas Energy Policies For Severity Of February Blackouts
• "Biden Picks Trump Critic To Lead EPA Science Office"
• Rising Natural Gas Prices Help Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources
• "Philanthropists Pledge $5 Billion To Save Threatened Species"
• "Love The National Parks? Get Ready For Them To Heat Up"
• Grand Ronde tribe reclaims Willamette Falls, as work begins to tear down Oregon City mill
• Young people experiencing ‘widespread’ psychological distress over government handling of looming climate crisis
• Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago
• California rolls out biggest climate package in state history with an unprecedented $15 billion investment
• Bioprinted neurons could cut use of animals in research
• Philanthropists pledge record $5 billion to protect nature
• The $7billion MacArthur Foundation announced that it will divest from fossil fuels
• Rhino drowns in Dutch zoo in mating mishap
• Mountain goat kills attacking grizzly bear with dagger-like horns
• UN and partners launch billion-dollar initiative to transform cities for people and planets
• President Xi declares end to Chinese support for new coal power abroad
• WildEarth Guardians calls on EPA to shut down illegal air polluters in New Mexico
• White rhino population down by two-thirds
• Livestock industry is lobbying UN to support more meat production
• A new survey reveals that deadlines don’t cause despair and can motivate people to climate action
• The Deep Seas near New Zealand have yielded 6 new species of bizarre sponges
• Sale of live crabs, lobsters, and fur banned in Amsterdam markets
• 63 endangered penguins die after being attacked by enraged bees
• Lions and tigers at DCs National Zoo test presumptive positive for COVID
• African Parks secures $100m for conservation in Africa
• Point Reyes National Seashore capitulates to ranchers
• Mexico just banned cosmetic animal testing in a North American first