Conservation News ~ 7 August 2020

• 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