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Conservation News ~ 25 October 2019

10/25/2019

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  • 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
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