Conservation News ~ 30 July 2020

• Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites
• Scientists successfully revive 100m-year-old microbes from the sea
• Video of endangered tigers in Thailand – footage boosts hope for species survival
• Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks
• Arrests in Indonesian probe into latest case of labor abuses on Chinese fishing boats
• Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite govt crackdowns
• Extreme Chernobyl fungus could protect astronauts from deadly radiation
• Bishop museum officially names new living native Hawaiian snail species
• Kazakhstan to list Caspian Seal in red book of endangered species
• Lake Titicaca’s endangered ‘scrotum frog’ could be on its last legs
• Seahorses, seals, and Sussex stand to benefit from $500,000 willdlife grant
• In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus
• Scientists launch ambitious conservation project to save the Amazon
• Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation
• Indonesian fishers face livelihood threat from ‘beautiful’ tourism project
• Five potential game changers for EU aquaculture
• Isha Foundation accredited to UN environment Assembly
• Seeking summer real estate, endangered Indiana bats are running out of places to live
• Upstate Forever announces protection of more than 600 acres
• New wildflower species found in El Nido
• Waterfall of microbes in Antarctic sea floor leads to discovery of methane leak
• BC delays work to clean up Tulsequah Chief mine due to COVID
• Vietnam suspends wildlife trade as pandemic prods action
• Presumed extinct, a wildflower reappears on Mount Diablo
• Cameroon govt approves industrial exploitation of Ebo Forest
• New shark species found in Wilkinson, Co, Georgia
• The Living Ghost Dogs that haunt the Amazon
• Tongoenas burleyi, Extinct Giant Pigeon from Tonga
• World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters
• Niobiom mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant forest loss
• Sharks are functionally extinct in many global reef systems
• Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests
• Lockdowns Could Be the ‘Biggest Conservation Action’ in a Century
• Scientists discover new species of Mouse Lemur
• A Jaguar nicknamed ‘Short-Tail’ the first known to cross between Belize and Guatemala
• Upgrade of Indonesian palm pol certification falls short
• 2019 was the deadliest year ever for environment activists
• Criminalizing dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders
• For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a death sentence
• Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID surges
• In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it
• Migratory freshwater fish in peril as report shows population plunge