Conservation News ~ 8 May 2020

• 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