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Conservation News ~ 8 May 2020

5/8/2020

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  • Three new species of Buthus-Scorpions discovered
  • Dan Nicholas Parks Red Wolves have babies
  • Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River
  • The EPA just refused to reduce levels of soot during a pandemic made worse by air pollution
  • Elizabeth Warren backs Cory Booker’s bill to shut down factory farms
  • Pakistan hires thousands of newly-unemployed laborers for ambitious 10 billion tree-planting initiative
  • Discovering a new salamander, the Hickory Nut Gorge green
  • Amid Coronavirus lockdown, a spike in illegal logging in Tunisia
  • America’s renewable energy sources have produced more electricity than coal every day for 40 days straight
  • Authorities seize record 26 tons of illegal shark fins in Hong Kong
  • Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production
  • Journalist arrested for reporting on palm oil tycoon’s alleged land grab
  • Fracking effort closes in on impoverished Colombian communities
  • Forest clearing proceeds for dam in Sumatra despite locals’ land claim
  • St Louis becomes third US City to adopt bold standards to slash energy waste from building owners
  • Conservation in crisis: ecotourism collapse threatens communities and wildlife
  • Ricky Gervais- Pandemics come from eating things you fucking shouldn’t
  • Snow loss fueling harmful algal blooms
  • Lawmakers officially introduce bill to ban New York’s wet animal markets
  • As calls to shutter wildlife markets grow, China struggles with an industry worth billions
  • Germany’s Merkel wants green recovery from coronavirus crisis
  • Mulberry just banned exotic animal skins
  • Warren Buffett regrets $10bn bet on oil
  • Aiming for conservation and development in a corner of Mexico’s Mayan jungle
  • Arctic Edmontosaurus lives again: a new look at the ‘caribou of the Cretaceous’
  • New freeze-resistant trichinella species discovered in wolverines
  • Promiscous treatment of nature will lead to more pandemics
  • Two endangered species born at Buttonwood Park Zoo
  • Poachers kill more rhinos as coronavirus halts tourism to Africa
  • Whale that washed ashore in Ventura County towed out to sea
  • Researchers miss out on sperm whale superpod in Sri Lanka amid pandemic
  • ‘Extinct’ toad rediscovery offers hope amid amphibian apocalypse
  • Former slaughterhouse workers will be trained to make vegan meat
  • As visitors vanish, Madagascar’s protected areas suffer a devastating
  • 3 coal companies with ties to White House got $28 million in covid stimulus funds
  • Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands
  • Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land
  • Green recovery can revive virus-hit economies and tackle climate change
  • Climate journalism honored at Pulitzers
  • Thailand’s turtles have built the most nests in 20 years – on deserted beaches
  • 3 new species of horned frogs discovered in NE India
  • Newly discovered ancient plant captures snapshot of evolution
  • Endangered Nashville crayfish native is the latest target of endangered species rollbacks
  • Lawsuit filed over Humboldt Marten endangered species listing
  • Rare Island Marble butterfly wins Endangered Species protections
  • Siberian wildfires have burned an area more than three times the size of Delaware
  • Women in Taiwan lead fight for green energy, less food waste
  • White killer whale seen in the Monterey Bay
  • SA Barbara Creecy gives go-ahead for mining on 10 Western Cape beaches
  • Plastics Industry request $1 billion bailout from Fed
  • Plant geneticists unravel key to pesky pigweed’s resistance to glyphosate
  • Officials in Charleston, SC have endorsed $2 billion plan to wall off historic downtown
  • In another significant ruling for Right Whales, a federal judge rules that Massachusetts is violating law
  • IUCN adds to voice to 108 organizations around the Globe urging end to harmful fisheries subsidies
  • More than 80% of Indian Ocean dolphins may have been killed by commercial fishing
  • Green stimulus can repair global economy and climate
  • Tiny pair of world’s smallest cat breed born in UK
  • In rare sighting, pod of dolphins spotted off Israel’s southern shores
  • Two new species of Streptanthus species discovered in California
  • As bioethanol demands rises, biodiversity will fall in Brazil’s Cerrado region
  • Huge flock of sheep overruns street during coronavirus lockdown in Turkey
  • One in four tree deaths in Blue Ridge mountains linked to invasive species
  • Llama antibodies could help treat COVID
  • Intensive farming increases risk of epidemics
  • Upstate Forever awarded $3.9 million USDA funding partnership grant
  • Nicaragua failing to protect indigenous groups from land grabs
  • North Pole’s largest-ever ozone hole finally closes
  • Invasive Asian Beetle infesting trees across New York State
  • Towering redwoods shown to buffer to climate change
  • Patricia Medici, won a Whitley Award for her work on Tapirs
  • Devastating simulations say sea ice will be completely gone in Arctic summers by 2050
  • Animal-rights groups demand fur ban as mink test positive for COVID
  • First brown bear for 150 years seen in national park in northern Spain
  • We Energies officials announce arrival of 1st peregrine falcon chicks of 2020 season
  • In Panama, ‘silvopasture’ ranching improves profits, sustainability, and biodiversity
  • Asian Giant Hornets invading Washington state, pose numerous threats to US
  • $300M clean energy fund to back fossil fuel hydrogen projects
  • Three new species of horned frogs discovered from the forests of Northeast India
  • Giant Panda gives birth at Dutch Zoo
  • Endangered Tigers face growing threats from an Asian road-building boom
  • Brazil to weaken environmental safeguards amid increase in deforestation
  • Rare pink dolphins spotted off Koh Phangan
  • As oil industry swoons, tar sands workers look to renewables for jobs
  • Rays, sharks, and dolphins enjoy new freedom as humans retreat from the oceans
  • Before becoming frozen wasteland, Antarctica was home to frogs
  • Diamond Offshore Drilling files for bankruptcy
  • Satellite imagery is helping to detect plastic pollution in the ocean
  • US delays oil pipeline approvals after environmental ruling
  • Iceland’s hunt for Minke’s whales has officially ended
  • Despite no tourism income, this Philippine community still guards its environment
  • Critics say Border Wall still going up when they can’t protest
  • Florida farmers are selling directly to consumer to avoid produce dumps
  • Colorado outlaws cruel and unsporting wildlife killing contests
  • Wolf killing faces 500k euro fine in Flanders
  • Judge vacates oil and gas leases on 145,000 acres in Montana
  • Unexpected burst of orange poppies in Mojave desert seen from space
  • From Sri Lankan rainforest, an unknown species of orchid has been described
  • LED lights halve unwanted fish in nets
  • USFWS agrees to accept petition to list dunes lizard as endangered
  • Latino civil-rights group calls for meat boycott to protect workers from COVID
  • Costa Rican suburb gave citizenship to bees, plants, and trees
  • Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease
  • Extra protections for endangered whales off California coast
  • Endangered Species Act protection sought for Bumblebee species
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