Conservation News ~28 August 2020

• ​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