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Conservation News ~28 August 2020

8/28/2020

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  • ​Petition filed to list Western Ridged Mussel as an Endangered Species
  • 39 endangered Great Lakes piping plovers hatch at Detroit Zoo in most successful year ever
  • Embryonic dinosaur skull could mark discovery of new species
  • Mauritians launch rescue to save wildlife from oil spill
  • These scientists are listening to the Borneo rainforest to protect biodiversity
  • Upstate Forever receives $75,000 from Hollingsworth Funds
  • Captive breeding helps New Zealand’s threatened black stilts take flight
  • New UK law to curb deforestation in supply chains
  • Younger generation fail to notice environmental decline due to generational amnesia
  • Elephant poaching falls by 91% in 2 years in Kenya
  • Two new species of Deep Sea Worms discovered
  • Florida trappers catch new species of monster-sized snapping turtles- some weighing 100 pounds
  • St. John flower proposed for endangered species list
  • US proposes more changes to chip away at Endangered Species Act
  • California’s ancient redwoods survive wildfires
  • Bleak milestone- 500 major fires detected in Brazilian Amazon this year
  • Horrific clip shows whale meat dumped in ocean after five butchered in hunt
  • Native Hawaiian tiger-cowries eat alien, invasive species
  • Painting one turbine blade black reduces bird fatalities by 72%
  • Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows goes through process to rename area, removing ‘squaw’
  • With big new park, Atlanta protects a forest with a long history
  • Africa declared free of wild polio              
  • The Nature Conservancy of Canada protects shoreline along Buffalo Pound Lake
  • Scientists use fruit peel to turn old batteries into new
  • COVID pushes vegan egg maker just closer to IPO
  • The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine
  • Senate Democrats recommend trillions in climate investments
  • Wildfires, Hurricanes, Floods, and Droughts quadrupled in cost since 1980
  • New species found in the carapace of late cretaceous marine turtle
  • Belize expands marine reserve to meet Convention on Biodiversity target and moves to ban gill nets
  • The best rhino crime detective in South Africa, Leroy Bruwer, assassinated
  • There is a blooming White Sage Black Market
  • Historic solar deal powers Duke University toward carbon neutrality
  • Six species of Philippine crickets, held nameless in a Hawaii museum
  • Ben and Jerry’s launch new non-dairy ice cream to fight climate change
  • We can use CITES wildlife trade agreement to help prevent pandemics
  • Federal government considers lifting ban on importing parrots 25 years after it was introduced
  • Sir Ken Robinson dies
  • Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection
  • Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government
  • Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail
  • Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park after more than 100 years
  • Two baby gorillas born in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
  • Army finds Pebble Mine project cannot be permitted as proposed
  • Paco Valverde, an ocean hero dedicated to vaquita conservation succumbs to COVID
  • Nalin Indika Munasinghe joins IUCN Sri Lanka Country Office as its new programme coordinator
  • 13 important marine mammal areas approved in the Southern Ocean, one of the world’s richest marine mammal areas
  • Invasive lanternflies now spotted in New Jersey
  • New species of Forest Frog discovered Philippines
  • PEC Gilbert’s Corner Work wins state environmental award
  • New species of cretaceous brittle star names in honour of Nightwish vocalist
  • Children raised in greener areas have higher IQ
  • Southern pig-tailed macaques listed as endangered but still persecuted
  • Burnley man who illegally traded in critically endangered species is jailed
  • Several endangered may be at risk of COVID
  • CA teams up with Federal Government to thin forests
  • White House allows oil and gas drilling in 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  • For South America’s wilderness areas, COVID brings risk and respite
  • Indonesia bill weakening environmental safeguards to pass in October
  • After 250 years, Esden Tribe, regains a piece of its ancestral homeland
  • Ohio Wildlife Council receives aquaculture proposals
  • Cardinham Woods records eight new species of spider in Cornwall for the first time
  • California condor chick hatches at LA Zoo, a boost to endangered species
  • A bottle of seawater can hold the answer to whether there are sharks nearby
  • Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand
  • Mauritius plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy
  • Forest fires set by poachers threaten a refuge of the Sumatran rhino
  • Florida to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes against local residents’ wishes
  • Flint water crisis – Michigan ‘agrees to pay $600m’
  • New Mexico governor says ‘Time is running out to save our planet’
  • Monster 200-metre long ghost net removed from sea in Plymouth
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