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Conservation News ~ 3 January 2020

1/3/2020

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  • Thailand begins the New Year with plastic bag ban
  • British Troop’s anti-poaching mission saves 17 endangered Black Rhinos
  • Feds waived environment, other regs on 90 miles of Arizona border in 2019
  • Germany cuts fares for long-distance rail travel in response to climate crisis
  • The Golden Globes will serve a 100% vegan menu
  • Pope Francis to ‘every person on earth’: be kind to animals
  • White House will approve largest solar farm
  • Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, and Dell sued over child-mined cobalt from Africa
  • Palau is first country to ban ‘toxic sun cream
  • Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate
  • Rediscovered after 100 years, Gurney’s pitta is in peril once again
  • Denmark generated almost half of its electricity from wind in 2019
  • Nepal’s road-building spree pushes into the heart of the Himalayas
  • The first regional conservation area in Huanuco, Peru
  • New species of amphibians and plants discovered in Sagaing
  • Prince William launches Earthshot Prize to solve Earth’s environmental problems
  • Judge says filthy zoo must give up animals, Zoo appeals
  • In a rare feat achieved in Assam Zoo, endangered species of stork are bred artificially
  • State, Federal government renew Platte River agreement
  • Argentina sinks Chinese fishing ship that entered restricted area
  • New Zealand glaciers turn brown from Australian bushfires’ smoke, ash and dust
  • Clemson, LSU partner to avoid tiger extinction
  • Chinese company approved to run water mining operation in drought-stricken Queensland
  • Copenhagen to plant communal fruit trees on city streets
  • Testing the IUCN Green List of Species
  • Innovative orange juicer 3D prints bioplastic cups out of leftover orange peels
  • Unfathomable tragedy as fire ravishes German zoo’s ape house
  • Grassroots campaign saves major wetland in Montenegro
  • Lighting Industry sues to stop new efficiency standards
  • Newly discovered Australian spider breathes underwater, eats toads
  • Waimea forest purchased for $3.7m to keep in conservation
  • New fake rhino horn could push up poaching, inventors warned
  • Rebounding Hawaiian Hawk removed from Endangered List
  • Biodiversity moves into sustainability spotlight
  • Half a billion animals perish in Australian bushfires
  • Suspected abalone poacher bust by beachgoers at Clifton after swimming there from Robben Island
  • Endangered black rhino baby born on Christmas Eve at Michigan Zoo
  • 7 Caribbean countries ban single-use plastics starting New Year’s Day
  • Cheetahs face extinction as numbers crash
  • New Zealand opens Paparoa Track, first new ‘Great Walk’ in 25 years
  • Grizzly Bears move north in High Arctic as climate change expands range
  • Fausta, world’s oldest rhino, dead at 57
  • New species in Manipur: Trichodesma Kumareum
  • New species of crustacean thrives in mouth of giant shark
  • UN75 – UN Environment Programme’s leader shares three actions to save the world
  • Malibu wants to ban all pesticides but the state disagrees
  • The 2020 Biodiversity Strategic Planning timeline
  • SD Zoo elephant, Tembo, passes away
  • Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country
  • Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa
  • Manipur Hero dedicates 17 years of his life to grow 300 acre forest
  • Millionaire who killed rare whale hybrid vows to kill 150 more
  • Virginia School District to give students one day off per year for civic action
  • Court upholds creation of National Monument in Atlantic
  • Parasitic leeches present a new threat to endangered mussels
  • Water-guzzling demands of border wall threaten fish species
  • More discoveries, more threats for Sri Lanka’s dragonflies and damselflies
  • Female gorillas recognize and respond to contagious disease
  • Three pangoling species closer to extinction
  • Greta Thunberg will interview David Attenborough
  • 13 rhinos poached and 7 poachers killed in Okavango Delta
  • Rapid genetic test traces spread of fungus that kills frogs, reveals new strain in Southeast Asia
  • White House removes Federal database that tracked pollution
  • New National Parks get Sh255 bn
  • Meet the new ancient shark species found in southern Alabama
  • Interior wordsmiths habitat with eye on regulatory reach
  • Climate crisis linked to at least 15 $1bn-plus disasters in 2019
  • Microplastic pollution is raining down on city dwellers
  • New York becomes first state to ban sale of Giraffe products
  • Nearly 8000 rhinos poached in Mzansi this decade
  • Court upholds Obama’s protected marine monument
  • New Zealand becomes first country to adopt Hookpod
  • West Coast fishery rebounds in rare conservation home run
  • Australia’s environment minister says up to 30% of koalas killed in NSW
  • Italy creates Europe’s first plastic-free ski resort
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