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Conservation News ~ 25 December 2020

12/25/2020

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  • Panthera study identifies more reliable metrics to save tigers
  • Norway’s Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling
  • Zoo Knoxville welcomes endangered baby mountain zebra for holidays
  • UWA botanist names, describes new ginger species
  • New Mexico methane emissions more than double
  • Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon
  • Oil drops as coronavirus strain revives demand fears
  • Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future
  • Nation’s largest land bridge for people and wildlife opens in San Antonio
  • In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine
  • Devastating fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands again
  • Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation over 100 million degrees
  • Lava lake forms after Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii
  • Fleas are parasitic scorpionflies, genetic analysis reveals
  • Lawsuit challenges White House’s lifting of roadless rules in Alaska’s Tongass
  • Fueled by climate change, wildfires threaten toxic superfund sites
  • Billions spent on fighting California wildfires, but little on prevention
  • Warming ocean fueled more storms in 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season
  • Court orders EPA to step up asbestos data collection
  • The last remaining animals have been rescued from Islamabad Zoo
  • Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity
  • Stimulus bill is laden with climate provisions, including a phasedown of chemical super-pollutants
  • Remarkable new species of snake found hidden in a biodiversity collection
  • Federal lead-pipe rule overhauled for first time in decades
  • Hopi tribe pushed for solutions in long struggle for water
  • Ohio passes bill that could bankrupt churches linked to fossil protests
  • Prosecution dropped against 2 environmental activists
  • Traditional and Indigenous peoples denounce planned Amazon railway
  • Pollution, water crisis strengthen calls for environmental law reform in Malaysia
  • Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush
  • OSU researchers identify ‘new’ species of flower from 100 million years ago
  • A new species of mammal may have been found in Africa’s montane forests
  • Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam
  • Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees
  • Liberia gave villagers control over their forests, then a mining company showed up
  • A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it
  • Microplastics revealed in the placentas of unborn babies
  • Ivory Coast creates wildlife sanctuary to protect turtles and sharks
  • The pandemic turned the volume down on ocean noise pollution
  • Little penguin burrows found for first time in seven years on West Island
  • Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations
  • A new conservation area is created in southern Ecuador
  • US Congress takes aim at climate change in massive relief bill
  • New population of blue whales discovered in the western Indian Ocean
  • Botanist discovers new species of potato orchid in Madagascar
  • A new species of bee has been found in WNC
  • New nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier in a key step toward a stable and clean fuel source
  • Sighting of a super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’
  • Scotia bank becomes fifth major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge
  • New Mexico state land office ends freshwater use by oil and gas industry
  • Baby elephant saved with CPR after being hit by motorbike in Thailand
  • White House waters down definition of critical habitat for endangered species
  • Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
  • In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice
  • Environmentalists seek to block Bahamas oil drilling bid near US coast
  • Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills
  • When invaders moved into their land, Brazil’s Karipuna people pushed back
  • Two newly discovered species of fungi species turn flies into zombies
  • New tree-spider crab species with purple patches described from Kerala mangroves
  • New bee discovered after fire in Great Smoky Mountains
  • 10,800 years ago, early humans planted forest islands in Amazonia’s grasslands
  • New Mexico Rancher who pleaded guilty to bludgeoning endangered wolf admitted trapping, beating others
  • Camera traps document wildfire’s return to Gorongosa National Park
  • Windfarms in Great Britain break record for clean power generation
  • Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo
  • IUCN report documents additional 31 species extinct, all freshwater threatened
  • Action plan launched to conserve giraffe in Tanzania
  • 160 years later, study shows Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly
  • Rare sighting of bobcat in the Bronx River, a sign of a healthier waterway
  • Scientists plan mission to biggest iceberg as it drifts towards island
  • An unusual meteorite, more valuable than gold, may hold the building blocks of life
  • As smaller wolves die huge wolves from Ontario establish on Isle Royale National Park
  • Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes call to rename Colorado’s Mt. Evans and reckon with its namesake’s violent legacy
  • A coal plant in India has found a way to turn almost all its CO2 emissions into baking powder
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, a $5billion foundation literally founded on oil money is saying goodbye to fossil fuels
  • State Supreme Court blocks proposed gold mine near Yellowstone
  • Peruvian court absolves cacoa company of illegal Amazon deforestation
  • For the first time in more than 80 years, salmon spawning in the upper Columbian River
  • Chinese companies and Namibian elites make million illegally logging the last rosewoods
  • Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone is on a mission to plant a million trees in two years
  • Giant Aztec skull tower unearthed in Mexico
  • Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws
  • Research breakthrough could transform clean energy technology
  • Lloyd’s market to quit fossil fuel insurance by 2030
  • New Princeton says the US can go carbon neutral by 2050
  • Devastating skin disease covering up to 70% of a dolphin’s body tied to climate change
  • Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific turns to public to keep animals fed
  • Biden to nominate Brenda Mallory to run council on environmental quality
  • Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again
  • Biden to pick North Carolina Regulator Michale Regan to lead EPA
  • New catalytic process turns plastic bags into adhesives
  • Biden selects Deb Haaland as Interior secretary
  • Report finds litany of labor abuses on RSPO-certified oil palm plantations
  • On plantations and in protected areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead
  • Victorian woman charged with animal cruelty after almost 130 wedge-tailed eagles found dead
  • Plastic cleanup brings crocodiles back to Indian river
  • The Uk is sending robot submarine to watch the world’s largest iceberg crash into an island
  • In rare event, 90k turtles hatch on a beach in Brazil
  • Scientist left speechless after opening asteroid samples containing seemingly organic matter
  • US Fish and Wildlife Service says Oregon’s Spotted Owls should be reclassified as an Endangered Species
  • Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests
  • UN honours Young Champions of the Earth
  • White House weakens Endangered Species Act amidst biodiversity crisis
  • IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseilles rescheduled to September 2021
  • Amphibian die-offs worsened malaria outbreaks in Central America
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