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Conservation News ~ 4 December 2020

12/4/2020

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  • Us Fish and Wildlife Service decides against listing hitch under Endangered Species Act
  • Endangered Species Protection sought for rare Oregon wildflower
  • Global soils underpin life future looks bleak, warns UN report
  • Another indigenous elder lost to COVID in the Amazon
  • Mystery of Siberian freshwater seal food choice solved
  • Canadian Liberals introduce bill to implement UN indigenous rights declaration
  • New agreement brings large-scale dam removal a step closer
  • US storage deployments shatter record in Q3, with 7.5 GW projected by 2025
  • 27,000 acres gifted to UF for conservation, outdoor classroom, and laboratory
  • Study finds only 300 swift parrots could remain as Tasmanian court challenge heard
  • Denmark bans future offshore oil and gas licensing and ends all offshore production by 2050
  • Astronomers unveil most detailed 3d map yet of Milky Way
  • Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park
  • Coronavirus risk grows as animals move through wildlife trade
  • Study finds fire-prevention incentives in Indonesia don’t work
  • French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation
  • Exxon know of climate change in 1981 but it funded deniers for 27 more years
  • New Zealand declares climate emergency and has pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2025Pilihbit Tiger Reserve in India wins the inaugural TX2 award after doubling its tiger population
  • China vows to boost ‘weather modification’ capabailities
  • The crypto-creature from the deep: Researchers get rare video of bigfin squid
  • San Jose set to become largest U.S. city to ban natural gas in almost all new construction
  • India’s railways bring back tea in clay cups in bid to banish plastics
  • UK seeks site for world’s first fusion power station
  • UN Chief says humans are waging a suicidal war on nature
  • New tuberous species of begonia found in southern Yunnan
  • Mary Nichols is a contender for head of the EPA in a Biden administration
  • UK to become first country in Europe to ban live animal exports
  • Duff Reef declared a sanctuary
  • Officials rescue a 16-ft giraffe stranded on a flooding island in Kenya
  • COVID perfect storm threatens conservation in Africa
  • Indian government forms national panel to drive Paris Agreement goals
  • Namibia to auction 170 elephants over drought, increased population
  • Climate change is damaging more World Heritage sites
  • wildlflower meadows to line Engalnd’s new roads in boost for biodiversity
  • Auditors slam EU for marine protected areas that fail to protect ocean
  • Latest griffon vulture census demonstrated rewilding success in Rhodope Mountains
  • California Assembly expands rights for Native American tribes
  • World’s biggest iceberg is fraying at the edges
  • Scientists warn of the social and environmental risks tied to the energy transition
  • Hungary bans mink, fox, and ferret fur farming
  • Reforestation projects should include tree diversity targets
  • Hawaii’s fresh water leaks to the ocean through underground rivers
  • Stickleback study reveals ‘parallel’ evolution
  • Fear of predators shapes entire ecosystems
  • As the climate warms, leaves on some trees are dying earlier
  • Dolphins growing pressure as development eats into Borneo’s interior
  • Countries fall short on UN pledge to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020
  • The glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are running away
  • Layers of regulations to protect European seas ‘not working’ audit finds
  • Unprecedented sightings of maned wolves in Amazon herald a changing landscape
  • Pulp producers pull of $168 million Indonesia tax twist
  • Alleged government linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains
  • Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world
  • Global sustainable fishing initiative agreed by 14 countries
  • Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world that are rarely measured
  • The UN cancelled its 2020 climate summit and youth held one anyway
  • Elephants can lose two bathtubs full of water in a single day when it gets hot
  • New report offers clearest picture yet of pandemic impact on student learning
  • Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume
  • Europe plans space claw to capture orbiting junk
  • Piedmont halts north Greenville gas pipeline plans after outcry
  • Georgina Mace, who shaped list of endangered species, dies at 67
  • Automakers pledge to work with Biden to reduce emissions
  • Air monitors routinely miss pollution
  • More forests dies as warming cranks up fires, slows regrowth
  • Contaminants in New Jersey soil and water are toxic
  • Canada give BP okay to explore in Marine Conservation area
  • Border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars
  • Mountain pine trees that feed grizzlies is threatened
  • Senate approves two energy regulators, completing panel
  • New fish data reveal evolutionary bursts create species
  • In Japan aquaculture is deployed in the defense of endangered species
  • Glyphosate likely harms nearly all endangered species
  • Newly discovered 8-mile rock art in the Amazonian show the rainforest’s earliest inhabitants
  • 27,000 acres gifted to UF for conservation, outdoor classroom and laboratory
  • Arecibo telescope, ending 57-year run
  • Bank of America says it won’t finance oil and gas exploration in the Arctic
  • Researchers note new Cretaceous species, by a nose
  • New snail subspecies with upside down shell found in Manila
  • Poaching cases drop in Namibia
  • Beavers build first dam in Exmoor in more than 400 years
  • Chinese submarine reaches the deepest place on Earth
  • Video shows the world’s rarest boa found in Sete Barras, Brazil
  • Amazon deforestation tops 11,000sq km in Brazil, reaching 12-year high
  • Scottish homes to be first in world to use 100% green hydrogen
  • International lawyers draft plan to criminalize ecosystem destruction
  • Decaying jellyfish blooms can cause temporary changes to water column food
  • Waorani peoples’ struggle to protect the Amazon honored with this year’s 2020 Goldman Prize
  • Amid tensions in Myanmar, an indigenous Park of Peace is born
  • Australia’s emissions fell 3% in year to June amid COVID shutdown
  • Celebrities to champion threatened wildlife for Day of Remembrance of Lost Species
  • Madagascan fossil turns bird evolutionary anatomy on its head
  • See the new primate species – Popa Langur – discovered in Myanmar
  • Environment to benefit from biggest farming shake-up in 50 years
  • Effort to rescue endangered turtles becomes a Thanksgiving odyssey
  • Bird napper on the lose after stealing endangered species from Fresno zoo
  • Beneficial and harmful fungi are a the root of forest diversity
  • World’s loneliest elephant heads to Cambodia after Cher campaign
  • European states ordered to respond to youth activists climate lawsuit
  • Rare whale skeleton discovered in Thailand
  • Climate apocalypse fears stopping people having children
  • Fireball over Germany most probably asteroid fragment
  • Research shows whipping horses doesn’t make them run faster, straighter or safer – let’s cut it out
  • Tribes halt major copper mine on ancestral lands in Amazon
  • Tasmania power becomes 100% renewables
  • New species of gecko found in the eastern ghats
  • Endangered sea turtles knocked off course find refuge at Tennessee Aquarium over holiday
  • Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots are making a comeback
  • New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness
  • Canada give BP okay to explore in marine conservation area
  • Rein in advertising to help tackle climate crisis
  • Algae can be made to photosynthesize hydrogen in step towards clean fuel
  • EPA’s final deregulatory rush runs into open staff resistance
  • New species of burrowing frog named after Bengaluru
  • COVID pandemic forces endangered species smugglers into using cargo shipments
  • Moth wings covered in sound-absorbing stealth material can avoid bats’ echolocation
  • Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil executives, orders prison
  • Climate change drives plants to extinction in the Black Forest in Germany
  • Denmark could dig up and cremate mink killed in COVID cull
  • SWISS to vote on tougher responsibility proposal for companies
  • Chameleon last seen a century ago rediscovered in Madagascar
  • Groundbreaking study finds 13.3 quadrillion plastic fibers in California’s environment
  • Turns out, lots of Australia’s mammals glow under UV light
  • Climate change may make autumn leaves fall early and store less carbon
  • Medicinal plant may have evolved camouflage to evade humans
  • European Space Agency signs $102 million deal to bring space trash home
  • Bird flu fears grow after spate of mysterious UK swan deaths
  • Indonesian activists slam Jurassic Park plan for Komodo dragon habitat
  • Alex Trebek donated 62 acres of open space near Runyon Canyon
  • 102 Species at risk of extinction in the Fraser River estuary in British Colombia
  • Large trees in the sub-Himalayan sal forests are important for foraging woodpeckers
  • EU to ban use of lead shot by wetlands bird hunters
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