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Conservation News ~ 7 February 2020

2/7/2020

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  • White House finalizes plans for drilling, mining in shrunken Utah national monuments
  • Morocco will no longer kill stray dogs
  • Arctic permafrost that plays greater role in climate change than previously estimated
  • Global warming is speeding up Earth’s massive ocean currents
  • A sea ice declines, polar bears are spending an extra month on land
  • Penguin calls found to conform to human linguistic laws
  • Women are the single largest exclusion in India’s farmer suicide data
  • Dead Sea dates frown from 2000-year-old seeds
  • Congressman Lowenthal introduces bill to protect Federal lands in Utah as wilderness
  • RCMP are raiding Wet’suwet’en Land Defender Camps
  • Famous Gray Wolf (Or-54) found dead in Calfornia
  • Bumblebees’ decline points to mass extinctions
  • New York City just announced intent to ban new fossil fuel projects
  • White House is blowing up a National Monument in Arizona to make way for the Border Wall
  • Endangered Corroborre frogs survive bushfires
  • Ten US refineries emit cancer-causing chemical above EPA limits
  • First squid MRI study shows brain completely similar to dogs
  • Rare Glass Frogs with transparent stomachs have been found in Bolivia  for the first time in 18 years
  • Peruvian indigenous group wins suit to block oil exploration in Amazonian region
  • Latin America’s new leftist leaders are backtracking on the environment
  • EarthJustice is suing the USFWS to keep Florida Panthers on the road to recovery
  • Conservation groups join California in legal dispute over protecting bumblebees
  • Adani to plead guilty for giving false or misleading documents and may be fined up to $3m
  • Bjork and Microsoft use AI to create music that changes with the weather
  • Wildlife cam shows coyote playfully leading badger into tunnel near Santa Cruz mountains
  • Indonesia’s traveling dolphin circus shut down
  • Tim, Kenya’s iconic Big Tusker, passed away
  • New species are added to Texas’s threatened list
  • New thalattosaur species discovered in southeast Alaska
  • Population growth is damaging the environment in Oregon
  • Fireflies are under threat from habitat loss, pesticides, and light pollution
  • White House credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks
  • California Gov. Newsom proposes water management plan to protect endangered species
  • Carbon emissions from Peruvian gold mining alarming
  • Forever chemical found in half of all cosmetics could kill seals and dolphins
  • Harvard faculty votes for divestment
  • Traditional forest product knowledge strengthens the forest economy in Brazil
  • Indigenous forest defenders around the world are dying anonymous deaths
  • Switzerland may soon ban all factory farms
  • Millions of birds killed by nighttime harvesting in Mediterranean
  • Black-footed ferrets can teach us about conservation successes
  • Fiji values conservation of wetlands for preservation of biodiversity
  • New orb-weaver spider names after French mathematician and spider aficionado
  • Mercury in dental fillings could be getting into water supply
  • US House panel Oks bill to undo White House changes to Endangered Species Act
  • Hunting is slowly dying off and that has created a crisis for the nation’s many endangered species
  • Indonesia-WWF split puts rhino breeding project in Borneo in limbo
  • Australians boo climate change sceptic senator
  • Restoration of a San Mateo County creek reopens a gateway for Endangered Salmon
  • Greta Thunberg is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize again
  • 1,400 pounds of shark fins found by wildlife inspectors in Miami
  • EPA re-approves key Roundup chemical
  • Galapagos tortoise subspecies thought extinct lives on
  • Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation, despite foreign aid
  • Australian Defence Force flies in experts to assess corroboree frogs
  • Borneo locals win a court battle to bar a coal miner from their land
  • Profound evolution – wasps learn to recognize faces
  • Graeme Worboys, conservationist, receives the Order of Australia, on of the country’s highest honours
  • Red Fox study uncovers new species in Central Oregon
  • Judge orders feds to reconsider decision to not classify bat species found in WV as endangered
  • Crocodile spotted on the Great Barrier Reef
  • European crew wraps up mock moon mission on volcano in Hawaii
  • Every year, 50 million cleaner fish die in Norwegian fish farms
  • At famed Mexican butterfly reserve, second worker found dead
  • The Gingko Biloba tree achieves near immortality, more than 3000 years
  • Massacre leaves six indigenous people dead at Nicaraguan nature reserve
  • A rescued Green Sea Turtle pooped out plastic trash for weeks
  • Scientists found a 268-year-old whale
  • Man who stole lemur from zoo gets 12 years for Newport Beach burglaries
  • Endangered Florida Panther kittens find forever home at wildlife conservation
  • Gharials haven’t been seen in this Nepal park for 37 years but they’re back with babies
  • Man caught a JFK with smuggled birds from Guyana
  • New species of sea slugs found close to Maha, Gujarat shores
  • France moves to ban mass live-shredding of male chicks
  • Arizona quietly sells 16,810 acres to Freeport-McMoRan for mining waste
  • Sanders introduces bill to ban fracking
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