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Conservation News ~ 27 November 2020

11/27/2020

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  • German researchers compile world’s largest inventory of known plant species
  • $10m initiative seeks to boost farmers, economy and environment with grazing
  • Indonesians join effort to save endangered orangutan
  • US Government denies petition to designate Giant Devil Ray as endangered species
  • Totoaba trafficking arrests made in Mexico
  • California Attorney General Adds Endangered Species Act Claim to Lawsuit Challenging White House
  • A new species of filament barb found in the Western Ghats
  • 'Remarkable' Antarctica species 'new to science' discovered 1000 metres below ice
  • Major oil and gas companies join program to cut methane emissions
  • Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up
  • Europe signs $102m deal to bring space trash home
  • Invenergy unveils 1.3gw solar project set to be US’ largest
  • Indigenous groups vow to keep resisting as construction is approved for Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
  • Extremely rare species of whale, North Atlantic Right Whale, discovered dead on shore of barrier island off North Carolina
  • Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector
  • Gay penguin power couple hatches a second chick who was neglected by its straight parents
  • Shifts in flowering phases of plants due to reduced insect density
  • Michigan Governor moves to prevent Great Lakes oil spill by shutting down aging pipeline
  • Thousands of Goans are braving a pandemic to stop coal trains
  • Hungary bans mink, fox, and ferret fur farming
  • Wind-solar parks: conflicts galore but India wants more
  • Floating PV and land beside motorways to be included in Portugal’s 2021 solar auction process
  • First new Japanese cockroach species in 35 years discovered by scientists
  • The world’s newest monkey species was found in a lab, not on an expedition
  • A new species of rare phylum Loricefera discovered in deep-sea surrounding Japan
  • Understanding the appeal of alternative medicine can help protect the endangered species
  • Federal officials reject state petition to delist Arctic ringed seals from Endangered Species Act
  • Glyphosate’s effects on endangered species scrutinized in new EPA docs
  • US rejects controversial Alaska Pebble Gold, Copper Mine
  • More than 120 whales die in mass stranding on Chatham Islands
  • For the first time, scientists detect the ghostly signal that reveals the engine of the universe
  • Researchers find most shark fins in fish markets are from species in caught in coastal zones, not the open ocean
  • UK supermarket and fast-food chicken linked to deforestation in Brazil
  • Most migratory birds rely on a greening world
  • Indonesian fisheries minister arrested over graft in lobster policy
  • Californian cave artists may have used hallucinogens
  • Snowy Plovers reclaim suddenly quiet beaches
  • Cravings for social contact mimic hunger in the brain
  • Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru
  • The extinction of ice age mammals may have forced us to invent civilization
  • Cosmic statisticians say intelligent life really can’t exist anywhere else
  • IUCN opens nominations for the first-ever international ranger awards
  • Luisa the Manatee returns to the oceans in time for Manatee moth after rehab at Florida Zoo
  • New Zealand couple shuns developers to give 900 hectares of land to nation
  • Massive swarm of eels is the most fish ever recorded at the bottom of the ocean
  • Judge voids permits for Columbia river methanol plant orders new environment review
  • Leaf-cutter ant first insect found with biomineral body armour
  • Dallas Safari Club says captive-bred lion hunting not acceptable
  • Hundreds of new genomes help fill the bird ‘tree of life’
  • Investors plan major move into renewable energy infrastructure
  • A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake
  • CDFW awards $10.7 million for fisheries habitat restoration program projects
  • At 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise
  • Biden has promised to kill the Keystone XL pipeline and activists hope he’ll nix Dakota Access too
  • UN warns of deadlier pandemics
  • Amazon initiative pays farmers and ranchers to keep the forest standing
  • World Trade Organization is negotiating new agreement to protect our oceans from overfishing
  • Not just lizards – alligators can regrow their tails too
  • CO2 hits new record despite Covid lockdown
  • Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course
  • The newest species of Philippine false geckos is the 10th
  • Scientists slams climate change deniers in brilliant viral post
  • New species of glowing mushroom found growing on dead bamboo in India
  • New micro-animal species named after Bangor high school student
  • Weird gelatinous creature shaped like a party balloon is a new species
  • More wolves spotted in Colorado, animal remains a state endangered species
  • Lubbock included in proposed plan to rescue two endangered species of fish
  • France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy
  • Philippine ‘raptor boy’ shows it takes a village to protect a migration route
  • Curiosity finds evidence of megaflood on Mars
  • Climate change is intensifying the tsunami threat in Alaska
  • The 21st century threat to wildlife is cyberpoaching
  • Wildlife diseases poised to spread northwards as climate changes
  • Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook
  • John Kerry is named presidential envoy for climate
  • Waste activist digs into the sanitation crisis affecting the rural poor
  • GM flips to California’s side in pollution fight against White House
  • Secret Amazon reports expose the company’s surveillance of labor and environmental groups
  • IKEA to make 50 percent of food menu plant-based by 2025
  • Bottlenose dolphins could disappear from Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil
  • Mongabay launches in Hindi to expand environmental journalism in India
  • An indigenous effort to return Condors to the Pacific Northwest nears its goal
  • Photographer captures rare photos of Minnesota Black Wolf
  • Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants
  • Australia’s platypus habitat has shrunk 22% in 30 years
  • 8 new species added to Wyoming Champion Tree register
  • World’s last known white giraffe gets GPS tracking device
  • Google Cloud helps animal conservation in Cameroon
  • Elephant trapped in Indian well rescued in 12-hour crane operation
  • SD city council approves Riverwalk San Diego project, clears way for 4,300 homes
  • Global map of bees created in conservation first
  • Scientists have discovered a new stingray and named in ‘six-eyed’
  • Conservation park worth R100-billion to be built in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Microplastic pollution found near summit of Mount Everest
  • Rare species of small cats inadequately protected
  • Tiger Kind star accused of inhumane treatment, violating Endangered Species Act
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