Conservation News ~ 4 September 2020

• Research behind award winning documentary film reveals new species
• New species of freshwater crustacea found in the hottest place on Earth
• EPA pledges more cleanups; less focus on climate: America’s environment today is cleaner
• Chinese mining firms in Zimbabwe pose threat to endangered species
• RI state insect moved off endangered species list, but not everyone sees it as a victory
• Turtle species among the most endangered in the world saved from extinction
• French PM says jobs and green recovery at heart of COVID recovery plan
• Audubon study confirms solar is a major economic driver in South Carolina
• As fire burns, activists sneak into Point Reyes to bring water to parched elk
• Europe’s richest countries importing Brazilian beef linked to millions of tons of emissions
• Feds to strip protections for Grey Wolves nationwide before close of 2020
• $154 billion in capital has flowed to 300 ‘forest-risk’ companies since the Paris Agreement
• Fracking company has made it rain toxic water upon New Mexico without penalty
• UN urges probe of US arctic drilling plan for human rights abuses
• EPA to open new office – mountains, deserts, and plains
• Mexican Environment Minister resigns after critique
• Bering Sea Ice hasn’t been this low in at least 5,500 years
• Damaged Venezuelan oil tanker drawing international concern
• Uganda has rare gorilla baby boom in park
• New species of clam shrimp discovered in pond at UVI’s golf course
• New wildflower species found, native to Pennsylvania
• Just half of major timber and pulp suppliers committed to zero deforestation
• Madagascar introduces stoves that burn rice husks instead of forests
• Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests
• Greenpeace photos illuminate illegal Amazon fires
• For Brazil’s most trafficked parrot, the poaching is relentless
• Ca passes bill allowing former inmates to become firefighters
• Costa Rica’s Carlos Manuel Rodriguez takes over as head of the Global Environment Facility
• Lions discovered at breeding facility are so sick they don’t even have fur
• Tribes, Green groups sue over White House rollback of water rights
• Anthropologist receives NSF funding to explore new fossil site in Kenya
• Neglected for over a century, Black Sea Spider Crab redescribed
• Madagascar giant frog is a new species, but also a deep-fried delicacy
• Humboldt Martens receive long-awaited endangered species act
• Humans’ construction footprint on ocean quantified for first time
• Endangered bee doesn’t warrant extra protection
• EPA relaxes rules limiting toxic waste from coal plants
• Singing dogs re-emerge from extinction for another tune
• National Forest System threatened by another White House oil and gas giveaway
• Six million Euros made available for conservation action to counter COVID impacts
• FEMA Chief refuses to say whether human activity is responsible for climate change
• Platypus should be listed vulnerable in Victoria forest
• Paper giant linked to Indonesia peat clearing despite sustainability
• Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth
• NASA led study reveals the causes of sea level rise since 1900
• Oregon Zoo leader, Dr. Don Moore, retires
• Officials quash plan to develop Philippines’ biggest copper mine
• Fate of 29,000 black-tailed prairie dogs at stake in Boulder, Colorado
• EPA relaxes rules limiting toxic waste from coal plants
• Exxon Mobil dropped from the Dow after nearly a century
• Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges
• Field Museum’s Emily Graslie to present lecture on curiosity
• Pope says use the pandemic to give the environment a vital rest
• Federal agency to decide if monarchs an endangered species
• Lawsuit launched challenging EPA decision to dismiss pesticides’ harms to endangered species
• China forges ahead with ambitious national park plan
• Maurtiues oil spill: thousands march in Port Luis
• Lockdown should have cleared up Jakarta’s air – coal plants kept it dirty
• New Tauros release boosts natural grazing in the Velebit Mountains
• UN Secretary general urges India to swiftly turn away from coal
• Minn AG Ellison sues White House over change to Federal environmental law
• Endangered eels found at Lymington port
• Single cat results in the death of nine endangered native seabird chicks on Kaua’i
• Hawaiian hawksbill sea turtles are truly local
• The Dalmation pelicans in Persina Nature Park
• Indonesian bill weakening environmental safeguards likely to become law in October
• Potential wolf puppy sighting in Northwest Colorado
• Border wildlife cameras show animals facing ‘completely unprecedented’ barrier
• Rampant destruction of forests will unleash more pandemics
• Endangered tamaraw killed in Mindoro, 3 poachers escape
• Hidden webs of fungi protect some forests from drought-but leave others vulnerable
• Despite expanding fires, Brazil suspends operations to combat Amazon deforestation
• New venomous snake species names after Metallica’s James Hetfield
• New moth species found, another rediscovered after 100 years in Arunachal
• Other mammals lose out in panda conservation drive
• Park rangers, the guardians of Ecuador’s biodiversity, face job insecurity
• Brazil green recovery plan could boost economy, add jobs, cut emissions
• Millions of pounds of extra pollution were released before Hurricane Laura’s landfall
• Made with palm oil, there’s a fine for that in new UK bill
• Scientists discover exposed bacteria can survive in space for years
• Europe’s wildlife comeback set to captivate global TV audiences
• Netherlands to close all mink fur farms by next March
• Mexican canned tuna contains dolphin meat
• United States establishes a dozen AI and quantum information science research centers
• California launches 100th lawsuit mark with new challenge to environmental rules
• 481 and counting: Norway’s whaling catch hits four-year high
• Anger and questions as 17 dead dolphins wash ashore in Mauritius
• Sea creatures made of trash on display at the Oregon Zoo
• Bobcat and mountain lion found dead from anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning in Santa Monica Mountains
• Audubon joins coalition to sue White House over harmful NEPA rules
• California legislators have just days left to vote on plastic pollution reduction act