Conservation News ~ 25 October 2019

• Glacial rivers absorb carbon faster than rainforests
  
• Death Valley is 25 years old and there is free entry and a week of free events
• White House begins official withdrawal from Paris Agreement
• Eight more Fishers released into the North Cascades
• New species of beetle named after Greta Thunberg
• $85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced
• New Grouper species discovered in Australian fish market
• Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon
• Amazon’s male white bellbird has the loudest recorded call
• Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries
• Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis
• A ‘sly’ species of leaf-tailed gecko uncovered from Madagascar
• US House unanimously approves bill to make animal cruelty a federal offense
• Apple CEO Tim Cook says he’s taking on climate change
• India just cancelled 14 huge coal-fired power stations as solar energy prices hit record low
• SD Safari Park’s rhino calf meets other rhino for first time
• Amazon rainforest close to irreversible tipping point
• Europe’s largest floating solar plant opens in France
• Brazilians rally to clean beaches amid outrage at government’s inaction
• Wildlife tourism five times more lucrative than illegal wildlife trade
• Oil companies persuade states to make pipeline protests a felony
• New species take longer to arise in the Amazon
• New crustacean species discovered in Lake Erie
• Minnesota joins legal challenge of White House rollbacks of Endangered Species Act
• Thawing permafrost turns Arctic into net source of carbon
• White House moves to lift protections for fish and divert water to farms
• New maps show that giraffes live mostly outside protected areas
• Once close to extinction, western South Atlantic Humpback whale population close to full recovery
• Eureka formally transfers Indian Island back to Wiyot Tribe
• Widespread drying of European peatlands
• Melting glaciers reveal five new islands in the Arctic
• Much of the Earth is still wild, but threatened by fragmentation
• White Cougar found in Brazil
• Antibiotic resistance is spreading among marine mammals
• California’s Kelp forests are crashing
• Malaysian attempt at Sumatran rhino IVF fails on low quality of sperm
• Six new lizard specie found in Western Ghats
• Scientists name new species of spiders after members of Iron Maiden, Def Leopard, Scorpions
• Tennessee freshwater fish gets endangered species protection
• Bank of England boss says global finance is funding 4C temperature rise
• Macy’s commits to stop selling fur by end of 2020
• At least 55 elephants die in Zimbabwe drought
• ‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
• Judge blocks White House plans that lifted Sage-Grouse protections
• Brazilian dentist arrested for allegedly killing over 1000 jaguars
• Environmental activist is murdered trying to save Europe’s oldest forests
• New species of dinosaur discovered in Japan
• New humpbacked fish found in India
• Electric fishing kills 57% of the seabed’s population
• Alaska ignores decline of Denali National Park
• Endangered lily faces challenges on Oregon’s South Coast
• Rare Oregon orchid fading fast
• Police ban Extinction Rebellion protests from whole of London
• New flowerpecker bird species discovered in imperiled lowland of Borneo
• New praying mantis species that looks and acts like a wasp is discovered
• Indigenous protests force government to cancel IMF loan
• Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific
• 130 banks worth $47 trillion adopt new UN-backed climate policies to shift their loan balance
• Second whale found dead in Thames in less than two weeks
• Ships are illegally dumping plastic trash at sea
• British company pleads to smuggling endangered species
• DeGeneres raises $5million for gorilla conservation in Rwanda
• Northern Arapaho tribe welcomes first buffalo herd