Conservation News ~ 25 September 2020

• Survival of wildlife reserves under threat in Namibia
• The Pantanal is 22% burnt
• BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred
• TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader
• New species of fairy shrimp found in world’s hottest desert
• Legislation will provide environmental justice to protect communities from toxics
• Ecologists confirm Alan Turing's theory for Australian fairy circles
• Australia whales: 90 dead in mass stranding off Tasmania
• Philippine community goes to court to stop coal plant in ecological haven
• China, world’s biggest polluter, vows to go carbon neutral by 2050
• The Brown Bat is one step closer to becoming DCs official mammal
• China, more than other states, looks to future Arctic sea route
• Intelligence helps Namibia turn tide against rhino poachers
• Despite frog-killing disease, researchers discover new frog species
• Scientists identify new species of crystal-encrusted truffle, thanks to bonobos
• Australians suffer $2 billion health bill from summer bushfire smoke
• Few countries living up to COVID ‘green recovery’ pledges
• New tool alerts ships when whales are near
• Overfished Congo waters put endangered sharks at risk
• Flip flops and fishing gear pile up at Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Past illegal activity dogs Chines fleet that fished squid near Galapagos
• Great Thunberg will donate €150,000 to support people on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Africa
• China in pointed message to US, tightens its climate targets
• Ecuador’s highest court will allow communities to vote on mining projects
• California plans to ban sales of gas-powered cars in 15 years
• EPA questions science linking pesticide to brain damage in children
• First Nations restore ancient clam gardens
• Mussel-bola could be spreading
• IUCN, FAO and WWF Pakistan join hands with Ministry of Climate Change to monitor the largest afforestation programme in Pakistan
• More than 560 companies back global ‘Call to Action’ for nature
• Poland, the world’s third largest fur producer, votes to ban fur farming
• Department of Agriculture awarded federal grant to develop conservation plan for endangered
• Joshua Trees given temporary endangered species protections
• Richest 1%’s emissions twice that of poorest 50%
• Environmentalists plan lawsuit challenging Newsom over oil and gas drilling permits
• Human footprints found in Saudi Arabia may be 120,000 years old
• Wilderness the size of Mexico lost worldwide in just 13 years
• Rare pink dolphin are back in Hong Kong as lockdown halts ferry traffic
• Feds reaffirm western yellow-billed cuckoo’s threatened species status
• Biodiversity hypothesis called into question
• Arctic ice melt doesn’t boost sea levels
• PhD student conducts critical research work establishing new Bonnethead Shark species from home
• New species of burrowing dinosaur found perfectly preserved in ‘Cretaceous Pompeii’
• Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation
• Australian scientists say suppression of environment research is getting worse
• Feds propose listing two Missouri crayfish species as ‘threatened’ under Endangered Species Act
• Rescued wild pangolin gives birth to healthy pup
• Two new Javan rhino calves are spotted in the species’ last holdout
• Indonesia’s mining pits claim more lives
• Hawaiian reefs lost almost half their fish to pollution and fishing
• Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat
• White House pushed EPA for fewer methane checks
• New Jersey law seeks to stem pollution in minority areas
• Discovery of new species of human with hobbit skull
• Environmental gains during pandemic prove short-lived
• Delmarva fox squirrels, once an endangered species, to be released in Dagsboro
• Chinese startup launching space mining robot in November
• Oceanbird cargo ship relies on wind to transport autos
• Hair from ghostly bears reveals new genetic secrets
• Five states have filed climate change lawsuits, seeking damages from big oil and gas
• Feds’ preferred highway route would impact lands it spent millions acquiring for conservation
• New gecko species discovered in Bicol
• Shedd Aquarium welcomes 24 new endangered turtle hatchlings
• Imperiled beetle loses some protections
• Colorado Agency caves to US Forest Service, Oks more bulldozing of roadless forest
• More than 17,000 rare Nevada wildflowers destroyed
• BC’s old-growth forest announcement won’t actually slow down logging
• Park Service finalized disastrous Point Reyes plan to kill Native Wildlife, prioritize commercial livestock
• Russian scientists discovered a new species of bats on Kunashir
• Legislation introduced to modernize Endangered Species Act
• Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge
• Fires turn sage brush habitat in Washington into a scorched oblivion
• In Peru, self-reporting of oil spills by companies leaves an unknown toll
• CO2 from California fires dwarf state’s fossil fuel emissions
• Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID
• Patagonia says its new ‘vote the assholes out’ clothing tag is a call to action on climate change
• Gas companies are abandoning wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
• Court temporarily pauses EPA methane emissions rollback
• Greenville Zoo Education team wins Pinnacle Award