Conservation News ~ 6 December 2019

• Conservation of biodiversity is like an insurance policy for the future of mankind
• TROY professor helps discover new species causing black gill in Georgia shrimp
• Cichlid species can create entirely new species when they have sex
• Staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations
• FSU research finds Deepwater Horizon Oil in Gulf Coast beaches may take over 30 years to clean
• Volkswagen drives bigger to protect forestlands with The Conservation Fund
• Paleontologists find fossils of six new dragonfly species
• Ban on destructive fishing practice helps species recovery in Indonesian park
• New regulations to expand protections for seafloor habitats, reopen fishing grounds off US West Coast
• Sri Lanka’s Olive Ridley Turtles face myriad threats
• Development devours forest reserve in Zambia
• Indonesian officials charged in $1.6m bribes-for-permits scheme
• Minnesota to spend $4 million to fight invasive bugs and plants
• Climate change to steer all New Zealand government decisions from now on
• $20,000 reward offered to find person who poached elk in southeast Missouri
• The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker may come off the Endangered Species List
• Thousands of Harvard graduate students on strike starting Tuesday
• Amazon primates face barriers in responding to climate change
• Indonesian man jailed for smuggling 7,000 horseshoe crabs
• Moon and Earth’s magnetic field guide European eels on their epic migration
• Wild seed collectors turn Indiana Jones in the search for resilient crops
• Researchers discover new species of dinosaur that flew above the reefs and lagoons
• Drone images show Greenland ice sheet becoming more unstable
• UN Chief declares ‘utterly inadequate’ efforts to tackle climate crisis
• 25th UN Climate Change conference begins in Spain
• Japanese ship leaves for Antarctic Ocean for whale research
• ‘Young Sheldon’ star protests with Jane Fonda, Paul Scheer arrested at DC event
• Extinct in the wild, a Brazilian bird makes a tentative return to the jungle
• Camera traps yield surprises in West Africa’s largest protected area
• Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic opens new pathways for animal disease
• Indonesia must stop building new coal plants by 2020 to meet climate goals
• Spotted Owl will not be federally listed as an endangered species
• Eight-foot whale found washed up on Thames shore
• Researchers discover new snake species in Arunachal Pradesh, India
• New Zealand begins genetic program to produce low methane-emitting sheep
• Polar Bear diet is 25% plastic, Russian scientists show
• Major sewage spill in Orange County closes beaches from Newport Beach to Dana Point
• Boulder climate scientist sues White House over matter of scientific integrity
• Brazilian president claims Leonardo DiCaprio funded Amazon fires
• Zion National Park reaches its 100-year milestone
• Arctic coal passage to India threatens wildlife
• Invasive monster mussels discovered in Pennsylvania
• Healthy coral sounds lure fish back to abandoned reefs
• Columbus Zoo welcomes new polar bear cub on Thanksgiving
• Proposed federal wildlife act would bring millions to state
• As wolves recover, calls in Wisconsin to end endangered species listing grow
• Karoon to give up its exploration permit in Great Australian Bight
• Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world
• Heat stress is causing desert bird populations to collapse
• Oregon Court of Appeals upholds wolf delisting
• PAC, GTA sign MoU to promote conservation of protected areas
• Plastic pollution kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands
• Humpback super-groups near Saldanha Bay ‘look more like salmon than whales’
• Recordings reveal that plants make ultrasonic squeals when stressed
• Academy scientists describe 71 new species in 2019
• Threats, raids, and murders stalk Filipino environment activists
• Two southern Arizona plants proposed for Endangered Species Act protection
• Rate of new endangered species listings declines under current Federal Administration
• Ohio bill would provide $28 million to protect endangered species
• America’s National Parks are being overrun by rats, cats, and feral hogs