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Conservation News ~ 29 May 2020

5/29/2020

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  • Researchers have discovered a new subspecies of a beloved Australian bird
  • Dolphin mom adopts baby whale and takes care of it for three years
  • Cactus-dwelling couple proves rumors that Bald Eagles nest in saguaros
  • Climate change is driving widespread forest death and creating shorter, younger trees
  • European firms are investigating loophole to import Myanmar teak
  • Expansion of hunting on National Wildlife Refuges threatens imperiled species
  • Novel virus could spread rapidly among endangered orcas
  • Mining company blows up 46,000 year old aboriginal sacred caves
  • US lawmakers unveil bold $100billion plan to remake NSF
  • Small scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution from 1860s California gold rush
  • Vegan senator Cory Booker demands congress slow animal slaughter speed during COVID pandemic
  • Scientists record rarely heard sounds made by Narwhals
  • Campaigners in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region oppose $21m conservation project
  • New iguana species found hiding in plain sight
  • Officials discover new species of crayfish for Ohio after 45-year search
  • The UN says Good health is an environmental right
  • US lets corporations delay paying environmental fines amid pandemic
  • St. Louis wildlife facility sends Mexican wolf pups to Arizona, New Mexico to help save the species
  • Endangered species, slender loris spotted near Tirumala
  • US States defend Endangered Species Act lawsuit
  • Humpback whales have made a remarkable recovery, giving us hope for the planet
  • New study shows why glass frogs have see-through skin
  • ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest star
  • New public lands rules will let Alaska hunters kill bear cubs in den
  • The coronavirus is pushing China toward a meatless future
  • Loggers injured a Brazilian environmental official, but Administration remained silent
  • Brazilian taxpayers subsidizing Amazon-clearing cattle ranches
  • A new sanctuary for the Sumatran rhino is delayed amid COVID measures
  • Manyana bushland clearing halted as protest group launches federal court challenges
  • NFWF announce release of Killer Whale research and conservation program 2020 request for proposals
  • Fossil of ancient long-tailed bird found in China
  • Mississippi River Delta marshes have hit a tipping point
  • White House again ok’s oil drilling in California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument
  • Portugal generated enough renewable energy to power the country for 1 month
  • Surgical masks wash up on Sydney beaches after 40 containers fall off cargo ship
  • Chattanooga Zoo’s Giraffe herd has arrived
  • Israel seals bat caves for visitors to shield endangered species from virus
  • New roads in Asia a significant threat to already endangered tigers
  • Army Corps tried end run around endangered species act
  • Engineers develop near-zero emissions engine technology
  • Antarctic Penguin poop emits laughing gas
  • COVID masks and gloves litter seabed in the Mediterranean
  • During height of pandemic, plant-based food sales increased by 90 percent
  • Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human intervention
  • Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
  • Venezuala rejects illegal seizure, sale of CITGO in the US
  • US Department of Energy rushes to build advanced new nuclear reactors
  • Lionfish second species to threaten Aegean ecosystem
  • Sixteen nabbed for illegal hunting in Eastern Cape
  • Scientists find genes to save ash trees from deadly beetle
  • A rewilding success story in Gorongosa National Park
  • New species of Pygmy Seahorse about the size of a grain of rice discovered in Indian Ocean
  • A new critically endangered frog named after the ‘man from the floodplain full of frogs’
  • Okarito gecko species rediscovered decades later
  • Alberta minister says it’s a great time to build pipeline because COVID restrictions limit protests
  • Nesting loggerhead sea turtle found dead in Cape Hatteras National Seashore beach
  • Kangaroos are victims of the world’s largest commercial slaughter of terrestrial wildlife
  • Spain seeks to pass new climate law to reach net zero by 2050
  • Nestle is building a $100million vegan food factory in China
  • Irish man faces US charges on trafficking rhino horns
  • Youn climate activists call for EU to radically reform farming sector
  • Indonesia may bar citizens from working on foreign fishing boats after spate of deaths
  • Locusts will devour crops and livelihoods in Pakistan
  • Australia’s failing environmental laws will fuel further public health crises
  • Public returns to St. Peter’s square, Pope calls for Defense of Environment
  • Chinese customs seize 10.7kg of endangered species products
  • Wild donkeys to roam Danube Delta once again
  • Endangered shorebirds unsustainably hunted during migrations
  • The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is going to be bad
  • Mink fur farms may have infected humans with COVID
  • COVID has erased 600k clean energy jobs in two months
  • Scientists say intrusion into nature led to pandemic
  • Southern reaches of Western Ghats yield 3 new plant species
  • New native grass species have been discovered on the Iberian Peninsula and Menorca
  • Endangered baby lemur born at San Jose’s Happy Hollow Zoo
  • Rare long-necked dinosaur that roamed the polar world unearthed in Australia
  • China’s air pollution is now worse than pre-COVID levels
  • Florida beachgoers have rare encounter with 800-pound leatherback sea turtle nesting during daylight hours
  • A proposed mine in Alaska will endanger brown bears
  • Kiwi included in proposed South African meat legislation
  • NRDC experts show us how we can slow the spread of Zoonotic disease
  • Researchers create global arsenic-in-groundwater maps to highlight threats
  • Rare white grizzly bear sighted in Canadian Rockies
  • For the first time, Washington will regulate Columbia-Snake River dams if they violate federal pollution rules
  • Algae is now growing on melting Antarctic snow due to climate change
  • Dam failure threatens a Dow chemical complex and Superfund cleanup
  • Ramu NiCo has been dumping millions of tons of toxic mine waste into Papua New Guinea’s waters
  • South Africa to probe Giraffe, Meerkat, Rhino shipments to China
  • New study finds goats respond to human cues the same way dogs do
  • Bumblebees clever trick fools plants into flower
  • UK approval for biggest gas power station in Europe ruled legal
  • Animal source for COVID continues to elude scientists
  • Assam students, environment activists launch online campaign to stop coal mining in elephant reserve
  • Brazil minister calls for environmental deregulation while public distracted by COVID
  • UC becomes nation’s largest university to divest fully from fossil fuels
  • Sea Shepherd files lawsuit to block New Zealand seafood exports to US in bid to protect Maui dolphin
  • Vegan food orders increase 104% in Hong Kong
  • 2 degrees of warming will push most tropical rainforests above their safe heat threshold
  • South Africa’s abalone black market is being squeezed by COVID
  • Swiss parliament group demand subsidies for vegetables instead of meat
  • White House postpones New Mexico oil and gas auction
  • New House Bill looks to protect our rivers and other waterways by halting White House
  • Locals stage latest fight against PNG mine dumping waste into sea
  • Illegal logging mafia stripping hornbill habitat in NE India
  • Mining company pressing to enter Ecuador’s Los Cedros Protected Forest
  • Papuan farmer dies after police assault at palm oil company
  • Bottlenose dolphins spotted in Finland for first time in 70 years
  • 12 ft SC alligator treated like an amusement ride by pest control agents before it was killed
  • Contentious Guatemala nickel mine ignores COVID lockdown
  • The BLM went out of its way to provide pandemic relief to oil companies
  • New Zealand ditches GDP for happiness and wellbeing
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