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Conservation News ~ 7 August 2020

8/7/2020

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  • Business lobbyists stymy climate much-needed action in Japan
  • Federal Court rules Federal government cannot allow fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Heatwaves will be as deadly as diseases globally – should we name them to raise awareness
  • Industry releases first standard to improve safety of mine waste storage
  • Indonesian fishers who fought off tin miners prepare to battle all over again
  • New acid mine drainage treatment turns waste into valuable critical minerals
  • Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts
  • Rare wildflower could jeopardize lithium mine
  • Draft guidelines for planning and monitoring corporate biodiversity performance issued for public comment
  • IUCN Standard to boost impact of nature-based solutions to global challenges
  • Almost a third of lemurs and North Atlantic Right Whale now Critically Endangered
  • Pioneering efforts come to fruition as Global Guidelines for connectivity conservation released
  • India adopts CATS standards across all 50 tiger reserves
  • New species of invasive grass found by botanists in Wisconsin
  • The unusual new species of stingray found in a jar
  • Lawsuit launched to protect Minnesota’s Endangered Rusty Patched Bumblebee
  • Air Force environmental programs help endangered species thrive
  • Lost grass Sphenopholis interrupta ssp. californica discovered by Jessie Vinje and Margie Mulligan in SD County
  • Nearly three billion animals killed or displaced by Australia’s fires
  • China’s focus on panda conservation has come at the cost of other species
  • Migratory river fish populaitons plunge 76% in past 50 years
  • Billions for national parks as historic bill becomes law
  • Significant jump in Emperor penguin numbers
  • Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price
  • More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas
  • Brazil end runs environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts
  • New Guinea has the most plant species of any land
  • Vietnam approves $9 billion development within mangrove reserve
  • New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’
  • Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows
  • In California, forest fires spark a babel of birdsong
  • In the forests of New Zealand, indigenous Maori and Western scientists work through past injustices to save a threatened species together
  • New species of Truffle discovered – Tuber luomae
  • Even as air pollution drops, communities of color in the US still breathe dirtier air
  • BP commits to slashing oil and gas operations, a necessary step for climate action
  • Shifting toward a plant-based food system would create 19 million jobs in Latin America by 2030
  • Trophy hunting, African animal product importation ban bill to be heard in assembly committee
  • Panda conservation efforts failed to protect other mammals
  • Amid Pine Mountain’s ancient trees, a forest ‘thinning’ project triggers protests
  • Weak enforcement sees surging trade in Philippine pangolin
  • Quarter of native UK mammals at imminent risk of extinction
  • Wildlands Network announces appointment of new Executive Director, Katie Davis
  • Fish and Wildlife agrees to reconsider Sonoran Desert Tortoise for ESA Protection
  • New species of fungus sticking out of beetles
  • New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
  • Federal regulators agree to reconsider Tucson tortoise for endangred species list
  • A pair of Canadian Ice Caps has disappeared completely
  • Researchers collaborate on a strategy for sustainable aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector
  • Saved from poisoning, these rare African vulture take wing again
  • Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate
  • Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder
  • Business risk and COVID are pushing Asian financiers away from coal
  • Scientists discover secret behind Earth’s biodiversity hotspot
  • Europe aims to be first climate-neutral continent
  • New Captain Hook Dinosaur with clawed hands discovered
  • Song for Cecil calls for ban on import of hunt trophies in memory of tragic lion
  • ‘Green’ colonialism is ruining indigenous lives in Norway
  • Snake River dams will not be removed to save salmon
  • Tigers and their habitats under threat from the boost to the mining sector
  • Bright lights likely led to newly-hatched sea turtle deaths in South Carolina
  • Pendley’s own words disqualify him from leading the BLM
  • Washington farmworkers ask state supreme court for overtime pay
  • Apple fire in Riverside County grows to 20,000 acres, winds expected to pick up this afternoon
  • Kaavan, a Sri Lankan elephant living in captivity in a Pakistani zoo to be set free
  • Doctors to order a walk in the park under $4m ‘green prescriptions’ pilot
  • Arizona’s beloved San Pedro River is about to meet the rising wall on the US-Mexico border
  • How bats have outsmarted viruses-including coronaviruses – for 65 million years
  • Most polar bears to disappear by 2100
  • Landmark ruling Ugandan poacher jailed for killing Rafiki the gorilla
  • Ornithologists discover more rare hornbills than thought on Philippine island
  • Fossils show yet another dolphin species had lived in Gunma
  • Beetles dominate as scientists discover new animal species
  • 900 companies now support a Federal Ban on cosmetic animal testing
  • South African rhino poaching halves in six months thanks to COVID
  • Small crustacean can fragment microplastics in four days
  • European commission orders France to outlaw barbaric glue traps for birds
  • House clears #1.3T spending bill with $210b in emergency cash
  • Researchers discover 26 new species of micromulloscs, the size of a grain of sand, off Kimberley
  • Utica Zoo welcomes new species
  • Orange County activists stand against power plant expansion
  • Interior floats first definition of Endangered Species Habitat
  • Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
  • A decade after UN declared water a human right, it’s time for Canada to make it law
  • Protection of nesting beaches to prevent extinction of green turtles on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
  • Record 876 flamingo chicks born during 2020 breeding season at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve
  • ICUN mourns the death of John Foster CBE
  • Chattanooga Zoo announces New African Species
  • In Colombia, scientists are finding new species in uncharted territory
  • Foregoing $3billion bond a huge missed opportunity for New York’s environment and economy
  • Indonesia repatriates 91 smuggled animals from Philippines
  • Oregon Zoo releases endangered pond turtles back into the wild
  • Federal government mandating dam owner address endangered mussels
  • Smaller habitats worse than expected for biodiversity
  • Scales of critically endangered pangolin seized in Sumatra
  • Morgan Freeman Headlines This Gorgeous Campaign About a Whole New Ocean Species
  • Wildlife agencies increase reward for information in grizzly killing
  • Super-pollutant emitted by 11 Chinese chemical plants could equal a climate catastrophe
  • Returning to farming’s roots in the battle against the “billion-dollar beetle”
  • Tigers have made a remarkable comeback in five countries
  • Plague to protein – Israel firm seeks to put locust on the menu
  • Suit seeks to restore protections for wildlife in Flathead National Forest
  • Conservationists to Federal Agencies – Restore Protections for Imperiled Wildlife in the Flathead National Forest
  • Physicists – 90% chance of human society collapsing within decades
  • DNA from an ancient, unidentified ancestor was passed down to human living today
  • Committee advances eleven Indian Bills during business meeting
  • Continuing conservation in a planet on lockdown
  • New York Attorney General moves to dissolve the NRA after Fraud investigation
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