Conservation News ~ 4 February 2022

• US-Mexico Border Wall Thwarted Endangered Wolf's Search For A Mate
• Displaced and deprived, Indigenous communities suffer from hunger in Nicaragua
• California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation
• Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles
• The Years of the Tiger: The demand for tigers and the price they pay (commentary)
• Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm
• "Get BPA Out Of Food Packaging, US Health Professionals Tell Feds"
• "Montana Moves To Limit Wolf Hunts Around Yellowstone National Park"
• Australian Regulator Finds Emissions Misreporting By Coalminer Peabody
• Arctic Ills in California? "Hundreds of Migratory Seabirds Wash Ashore"
• "Alaska Court Rules Against Youths In Climate Change Lawsuit"
• "Biden Gets ‘Strong Prod’ on Climate With Ruling on Gulf Leases"
• "Yellowstone Looks At New Bison Plan, Less Focus On Slaughter"
• "Manchin Sits on Foundation Board With Lobbyists"
• "Mexican Town Protects Forest From Avocado Growers, Cartels"
• "Deadly Colorado Blaze Renews Focus On Underground Coal Fires"
• Malaysian officials deny deforestation drives deadly human-wildlife conflict
• Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó
• For the Year of the Tiger, a shared vision for the future of the iconic cat (commentary)
• "Biden Begins Crackdown On Power Plant Pollution"
• "Georgia Power Plans To Double Renewables, Ditch All Coal"
• "‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams"
• Count Estimates Earth Has 73,000 Tree Species – 14% More Than Reported
• "Measuring Climate Change: It’s Not Just Heat, It’s Humidity"
• Methane: Biden DOI To Give States $1.15 Billion To Plug Orphaned Wells
• "Climate-Driven Floods Will Disproportionately Affect Black Communities"
• Climate, Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergird the Ukraine-Russia Standoff
• Beavers Are Flooding the Warming Alaskan Arctic, Threatening Fish
• "Groundhogs, Out From the Scientific Shadows"
• Ecuador oil spill pollutes river, protected Amazon area
• Huge New Study Estimates There Are 9,200 Tree Species on Earth Yet To Be Discovered
• Two new species of potentially invasive hammerhead flatworms from Europe and Africa
• "Manchin, Key Dem, Says Build Back Better Bill Is ‘Dead’"
• "Va. Senate Panel Snubs Trump EPA Chief for Youngkin’s Cabinet"
• All Coral Will Suffer Severe Bleaching When Heating Hits 1.5C: Study
• Illegal Overfishing By Chinese Trawlers Leaves Sierra Leone ‘Starving’
• "NPS Employees Face A Worsening Housing Crunch As Prices Soar"
• "Biden Officials Head To EPA Regional Offices"
• "Climate Change A Rising Fed Concern As Nominees Face Hearing"
• "Climate Change May Be Fueling Increase In Major Northeast Snowstorms"
• O'Rourke Driving Pickup Across Texas To Highlight Issues With Grid
• Groundhog Day 2022: Punxsutawney Phil Furrsees Six More Weeks Of Winter
• As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty
• New study highlights hidden scale of U.S. illegal tiger trade
• Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline
• Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests
• Have we reached peak palm oil? (commentary)
• Vietnam’s timber legality program not making a dent in risky wood imports
• Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm, study says
• Tech revolution holds world of promise for conservation, but challenges persist
• Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change
• Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says
• A royal release: Cambodia returns 51 rare turtles to the wild
• ‘A bigger deal than it sounds’: Coconut crabs are vanishing, island by island
• Indonesia, Malaysia to hold joint patrols against illegal fishing
• Podcast: ‘Carbon cowboys’ and illegal logging
• In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says
• Indonesia on track with peatland restoration, but bogged down with mangroves
• Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being
• EPA Warns USPS To Halt $11.3 Billion Gas Truck Contract, Cites Climate
• "How Spiking Energy Prices Complicate the Fight Against Global Warming"
• "US To Modernize, Speed Up Work On Puerto Rico Power Grid"
• "Hanford Begins 1st Large-Scale Treatment Of Nuke Tank Wastes"
• "Extreme Heat In Oceans ‘Passed Point Of No Return’ In 2014"
• "From Fertilizer to Fuel: Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix?"
• Scotland Hopes To Save Salmon By Planting Millions Of Trees By Rivers
• "Miami Agrees To Do Something About Its Peacock Problem"
• "The Search for What’s Harming Florida’s Beloved Bonefish"
• "A Butterfly Conservatory Is Shutting Down Due To Right-Wing Harassment"
• New species of tarantula found in Tak
• New snail species are the world's smallest, tinier than grains of sand
• New eel species discovered
• Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador
• Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution
• Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest
• Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for February 2022
• Zimbabwe’s forests go up in smoke to feed its tobacco habit
• Wildlife an infrequent source of human illness
• China jails almost 50 steel executives for faking emissions data
• A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment
• Ecuadorian pipeline ruptures, spewing crude oil into Amazon rainforest
• Scotland hopes to save wild salmon by planting millions of trees next to rivers
• As deaths soar, lawsuit seeks to protect critical habitat for Florida Manatees
• Ecuador’s capital Quito devastated by freak rainfall reaching 75 liters per square meter
• Massive wolf kill disrupts long-running study of Yellowstone park packs
• Researchers launch Bering Strait expedition, seeking ‘black box’ to salmon survival
• Steep global wildlife decline may be worse than feared
• Global conservation goals are insufficient to avoid mass extinction event
• Montana to limit wolf hunts around Yellowstone National Park
• Extremely rare ringtail found in Idaho
• Indonesia is sinking capital cities because the old one is sinking into the ocean
• Satellites Show Quick Climate Fix With Methane ‘Ultra Emitters’
• "As World Drowns In Plastic Waste, U.N. To Hammer Out Global Treaty"
• States Will Weigh Over 210 Bills On Toxic “Forever Chemicals” In 2022
• "Oil Major Board Members Decline To Testify In House Climate Panel"
• "Lawsuit Says US Failed To Protect Manatee Habitats"
• "California Regulators Reconsider Move To Cut Solar Subsidies"
• Overwhelmed Grid Operator PJM Seeks 2-Year Pause on Solar Projects
• "Scientists Race To Gather Winter Data On Warming Great Lakes"
• "Biden’s ‘Cancer Moonshot’ Turns Toward Pollution"
• "Kelp Gets on the Carbon-Credit Bandwagon"