Conservation News ~ 6 October 2019

•  4 pups born this year in group of wolves living in eastern Lane and Douglas counties
• Climate change has brought 25 new species to Barents Sea
• New king cricket species discovery in Costa Rica
• New prehistoric flying reptile, ‘Iron Dragon’, discovered in Queensland
• Restore landscapes to push ahead on sustainable development, says International Resource Panel
• Environment groups offer $30k reward to identify wolf’s killer
• Los Angeles is looking into paving its roads with recycled plastic
• Peruvian authorities seize vessel with 12.3 seahorses
• In Israel, questions are raised about a forest that rises from the desert
• River otter pups to make debut at Jacksonville Zoo
• Washington State kills wolf mother to protect cows
• Study confirms that Grizzly Bears long inhabited North Cascades
• Whale calf rescued in Sydney was entangles in shark net from Queensland
• Adding 1 billion hectares of forest could help check global warming
• California man pleads guilty in the killing of the P-38 Mountain Lion
• French scientist invents machine that can turn plastic into diesel and gasoline
• Great horseshoe bats living in Kent after absence of 115 years
• Ant-plant partnerships may play unexpected role in ant evolution
• Tikkurila launches new paint collection to protect endangered species
• 17 states sue Feds over Endangered Species Act rules
• Sneaky lions in Zambia are moving across areas thought uninhabitable for them
• Imprinting on mothers may drive new species formation in poison dart frogs
• World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year
• Two indicted for sabotaging Dakota Access Pipeline
• Ancient tree with record of Earth’s magnetic field reversal in its rings discovered
• UC Davis finds extreme wildfires in Sierra Nevada forests are transforming forestlands into shrublands
• Demand for charcoal threatens the forest of Madagascar’s last hunter-gatherers
• Brazil land reform head fired amid push to legalize cleared Amazon land
• Brazilian beef industry plays outsized role in tropical carbon emissions
• Lack of seed availability hampers forest recovery after wildfires
• Germany is removing dead trees for large-scale reforestation
• Increasing precipitation extremes driving tree growth reductions across Southwest
• Pennsylvania will develop a pathway to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
• Greta Thunberg’s death metal cover is officially a single, with all proceeds going to Greenpeace
• Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time
• Bipartisan report says White House abuse has pushed Federal science to a crisis
• Gold mining leaves heart of Peruvian Amazon a wasteland
• Fossil fish gives new insights into evolution after end-Cretaceous mass extinction
• Environmental groups sue to get dunes sagebrush lizard added to endangered species list
• Endangered Species Act saves tiny Puerto Rican gecko
• Wildlife photographer raises concern with photos of emaciated grizzlies
• Royal Shakespeare Company to end BP sponsorship deal
• More than 130 whales dead after West African mass standing event
• Brazilian state complicit in violence against forest defenders
• Sarah Davis names Yellowstone’s next chief of resource and visitor protection
• Meet and Dairy consumption on the device in Finland
• Star-studded animal rights gala raises record $2 million
• TripAdvisor has just cut ties with attractions that breed whales and dolphins in captivity
• Thousands of ships use ‘cheat devices’ to dump toxic wastewater into oceans
• French citizens’ panel to advise on climate crisis strategies
• Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific
• Irish man sentenced in US for trafficking rhino horns
• White House eliminates advisory boards for marine life, invasive species
• Harvard launches law firm for animal advocacy
• New organic compounds found in Enceladus ice grains
• Once thought to be extinct, clover has recovered enough to come off the endangered list
• Poachers believed responsible for fire in Kenya’s Aberdare Forest
• More than half of all coffee species are at risk of extinction
• Condor chick makes first flight attempt from Utah cliff
• Belgium’s first sighted wolf in a century feared killed by hunters
• Amazon fires dropped unexpectedly in September
• New trapdoor spider species discovered
• New species of parasite is identified in fatal case of visceral leishmaniasis
• Protestors in Berlin call Brazil’s environment minister Salles ‘Climate Change’
• Tesla just developed a million-mile battery
• Nova Scotia announces 17 new, expanded protected areas, and 10 more to come
• Britain’s pine marten
• Nature retracts ocean-warming study
• Inslee asks Washington wildlife agency to kill  fewer wolves, pursue new management methods
• Indonesia cancels Komodo island closure, saying tourists are no threat to dragon
• Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier parks allow e-bikes
• Volkswagen emissions scandal- mass lawsuits opens in Germany
• First US gas stations to ditch oil for 100% electric vehicle charging opens
• 99 million year old snake hatchling found encased in Burmese
• Teen girls are leading the climate strikes and helping change the face of environmentalism
• Western lawmakers prepare bills to modernize Endangered Species Act
• Global warming causing ocean ‘emergency’
• After 450 million years, the Chinese horseshoe crab is now endangered
• Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress
• Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’
• Google searches for ‘climate change’ finally beat out Game of Thrones
• Australia cuts 80% of plastic bags in 3 short months
• Palm oil from’ orangutan capital of world’ sold to major brands
• Nearly 14,000 acres of wetlands along Savannah Ricer in SC put under conservation deal
• Trader Joes got rid of plastic packaging and produce prices fell by up to 25%
• 7 million people demand action after week of climate strikes
• The bee is declared the most important living being on the planet
• 315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
• An activist who protected the Amazon’s uncontacted tribes was just assassinated
• Palm oil from Sumatra illegal plantation found in supply chains of brands like Nestle
• Ontario is sacrificing wolves, coyotes, and moose to appease hunters
• Prince Harry unveils new conservation project in Angola
• 62 new marine species found in Gulf of Mannar
• Delhi Homes6 new Butterfly Species, some rare ones spotted this year
• Frosh, Dems launch full-court press to save Endangered Species Act
• Camera trap study reveals Amazon ocelot’s survival strategies
• Sant Barbara Zoo’s last elephant, 48 year- old Little Mac is euthanized
• 12-year-old Rhino Conservationist received award from Duke and Duchess
• Audubon-sponsored bill protecting California’s birds clears state senate
• Alarming extinction threat to Europe’s trees
• California governor vetoes bill aimed at stopping Feds environment rollback