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Conservation News ~ 28 February 2020

2/28/2020

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  • BP cutting ties with three US lobby groups over climate policies
  • Coke and Pepsi sued for creating a plastic pollution nuisance
  • Shenzen could be first city in China to ban eating of dogs and cats
  • Missouri farmer wins $265 million verdict against Monsanto
  • Lava flow tells 600-year- storyof biodiversity loss on tropical island
  • 12 new species of amphibians were found in Abra de Zamora, Ecuador
  • Forest duff must be considered in controlled burning to avoid damaging trees
  • Palau’s marine secretary backfires, leading to increased consumption of reef fish
  • On anniversary of nun’s murder, Amazon land rights activists at high risk
  • Bolivia and Paraguay unite to protect critically endangered guanacos
  • Call for prosecution of Indonesian politician who kept baby oranguatan as pet
  • Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous people
  • Heathrow third runway ruled illegal over climate change
  • China to dispatch army of ducks to Pakistan to devour locust swarm
  • Virginia lawmakers vote to ban offshore oil drilling
  • Rewilding project aims to give Thames its floodplain back
  • Two new ancient species of cockroaches found in cave in Myanmar
  • The Dept of Interior official says that the Border Wall helps environment
  • Online shopping can be worse for environment than driving to a store
  • Evidence does not support hunting as a way to control cougars
  • Protecting tropics could save half of species on brink
  • Manatee filmed being dragged along a road in Nigeria sparks outcry
  • Science shows nature makes children happier
  • Deaf moths evolved noise-cancelling scales to evade prey
  • Costa Rican indigenous land activist killed by armed mob
  • Moab’s Slickrock Trail spared from energy leasing as BLM withdraws plans
  • Canadian mining giant withdraws plans for C$20bn tar sands project
  • China permanently bans consumption of wild animals
  • Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai meet at Oxford University
  • Rare Red Colobus caught on camera in South Sudan
  • Oil and gas industry rewards US lawmakers who oppose environmental protections
  • Virginia state legislature passes landmark wildlife corridor bill
  • PepsiCo adopts stricter, greener rules for palm oil in products
  • Camera traps confirm presence of lowland gorillas in central mainland Equitorial Guinea for first time in over a decade
  • Coronavirus, trawls take a toll on shrimp fishery on Indonesia’s Jambi
  • Amazon tipping point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk
  • Listening to marine mammals is helping scientists understand Arctic impacts of climate change
  • Global seed bank receives one-millionth variety
  • Nearly 50 rhinos killed in Botswana in 10 months as poaching surges
  • Stunning footage of snow leopard and her quadruplet cubs
  • India’s bird population going down sharply
  • Durham miners join Extinction Rebellion in protest against coal
  • Polar bears in Baffin Bay have skinnier, fewer subs due to less sea ice
  • Bengal Forest officials say that Rhino toll reaches five in Jaldapara National Park
  • Canada’s oil bust has left thousands of orphan wells, and not enough money for cleanup
  • JPMorgan Chase to pull support for some fossil fuels
  • $85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced
  • Threat to Assam rhinos as fake coronavirus medicine doing rounds
  • Jupiter’s atmosphere has far more water than previously thought
  • Kenyan Agriculture Secretary orders closures of all four donkey slaughterhouses
  • Solar storms may leave grey whales blind and stranded
  • Conservation prioritization can resolve the flagship species conundrum
  • Bernie Sanders and AOC unveil a Green New Deal for public housing
  • Oregon Zoo has first Condor Egg of 2020
  • World’s richest 10% are responsible for 50% of carbon emissions while poorest 50% produce 10%
  • Sea Shepherd rescue entangled whale in Vaquita refuge
  • Red-state Utah embraces plan to tackle climate crisis in surprising shift
  • Fossils reveal first known giant parrot
  • Equinor abandons plans to drill in Great Australian Bight
  • California lawmakers introduce legislation to fight tropical deforestation
  • Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector
  • On-billion-year-old green seaweed fossils identified, relative of modern land plants
  • Climate warning disrupts tree seed production
  • Tasmania’s underwater forests disappearing in our lifetime
  • Massive wildlands bill passed by House would preserve more than 416,000 acres in Southern California
  • World Wildlife Day is March 3
  • Mine waste dams threaten the environment, even when they don’t fail
  • Former UN climate chief calls for civil disobedience
  • Chinese government approves decision to ban consumption of wild animals
  • Myanmar survey finds record number of Ayeyarwady dolphins
  • Six new gecko species found in Western Ghats
  • New species of soil bacteria can fight soil pollutants
  • Lawsuit forces White House action on Emperor Penguins
  • Oregon denies Jordan Cove LNG on Eve of FERC decision
  • House Democrats urge banks to not fund drilling in Arctic refuge
  • Enigmatic small primate finally caught on film in Kenya
  • Tropical snakes disappear as fungal outbreak decimates their prey
  • Palode forest yelds new amaranthus species
  • California Attorney General files lawsuit against White House for failing to protect endangered species
  • New way to turn carbon dioxide into coal could rewind the emissions clock
  • 28 people were arrested in Seattle for calling out Chas’s massive investments in the fossil fuel industry
  • Eagle trio sees parenting success in Illinois
  • Philippines races to save increasingly endangered hornbills
  • African penguin population plummets
  • Antarctic temperature rises above 20c for first time on record
  • The once-endangered Echo Parakeet has officially been downlisted to Vulnerable from just 12 birds in 1970 to 800 today
  • Himalayan wolf lopes toward recognition as distinct species
  • New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in complex way
  • UN accepts India’s proposal to save three endangered species
  • New Zealand opens Paparoa Track, first new Great Walk in 25 years
  • White House to approve strip mining on Tennessee’s protected Cumberland Plateau
  • Dry February sends California back to drought
  • New protections for jaguar and Asian elephant
  • Kellogg’s bans palm oil to save Orangutan after Brit siters’ campaign
  • Pets are rounded up and slaughtered to stop spread of coronavirus
  • Firms are making billions from highly hazardous pesticides
  • Iran upholds heavy sentences for conservationists convicted of spying
  • Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods commit to no deforestation
  • UN Human Rights Chief Slams Trump for Attacks on Environment, Refugees, and Children
  • Australian lion species discovered in Queensland's Riversleigh World Heritage area
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