Conservation News ~ 8 November 2019

• IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030
• A new bioreactor captures as much carbon as an acre of trees
• New Zealand Prime Minister Ardren says NZ is on ‘right side of history’ as MPs pass zero-carbon bill
• Coca Cola is biggest culprit behind plastic waste in the Philippines
• Italy to become first country to make learning about climate change compulsory for students
• Gene flow between butterfly species offers clue to biodiversity
• Two six-million-year-old new species of snakes found in Greece
• Beautiful new species of dragonfly discovered
• Pacific Fishers proposed for Endangered Species Act protection in California and Oregon
• Unusual mass flowering in Malaysian rainforests provides seeds for endangered tree ‘arks’
• Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico
• Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy
• Court rejects ivory ban challenge
• Makers of Oreo, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires
• LA Mayor Garcetti celebrates final approval of largest solar and energy storage project
• White House schedules lease sale for Arctic Alaska lands
• Indonesian journalists critical of illegal palm plantation found dead
• Earthworms’ place on Earth mapped
• Images reveal Iceland’s glacier melt
• Purchase of Banning Ranch for coastal preserve buoyed by $50 million donation
• New toads named from a Sumatran biodiversity trove that’s under threat
• The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to deny Paradise Valley plan south of Joshua Tree
• Fracking halted in England in major government U-turn
• Indonesia plans IVF for recently captured Sumatran rhino
• House votes to permanently ban uranium mines near Grand Canyon
• The Queen of England foes fur-free for the animals
• 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency
• New species of Tarsier discovered
• Brazilian judge rules elephants not a commodity
• Complex society discovered in vulturine guineafowl
• Greta Thunberg promotes veganism to 4 million ‘Ellen’ viewers
• Prince Harry’s conservation charity African Parks takes on neglected Zimbabwean national parks
• Scientists prioritize protection of ‘climate refugia’
• Bengal tree frog gets recorded as new species
• New species remain hidden in myristica swamps of the Western Ghats
• India air pollution at ‘unbearable levels’
• Five million pollution masks to be handed out to Delhi residents
• Eight new species of mussels spotted
• Killing endangered fish may land a Florida man in jail with a $50000 fine
• Rex Tillerson testified in court about lying to Exxon’s shareholders about climate change
• Plastic bottles repaving South Africa’s roads
• Five indigenous leaders massacred in Colombia
• Antarctic marine park – conservationists frustrated after protection bid fails for eighth time
• Guardian of the Forest ambushed and murdered in Brazilian Amazon
• Migrating eagles rack up huge data roaming charges
• Fishery collapse confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy
• There’s a new fin whale subspecies in the north Pacific
• Japanese university artificially incubated endangered eel species
• Bennet, Udall aim to conserve 30 percent of US lands by 2030
• Use of neonictinoids on rice paddies linked to fishery collapse in Japan
• Canadian Feds called on to enforce emergency closure of BC’s last herring fishery