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Conservation News ~ 25 September 2020

9/25/2020

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  • 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
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