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Conservation News ~ 4 September 2020

9/4/2020

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  • 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
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