Conservation News ~ 9 October 2020

• Environmental group sues Fort Huachuca to release documents about harm to river        
• A new species of Darwin wasp from Mexico named in observance of the 2020 quarantine period
• New species of aquatic mice discovered, cousins of one of the world's rarest mammals
• USFWS pulls wolverine protection proposal
• Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities
• Mr. Pail Mafabi, a leader in Ecosystem Management, passes away
• Public can speak on Nashville Crayfish Endangered Status
• Britain, Canada, EU throw weight behind 2030 biodiversity protection goal
• 95% of Marine Life on Sea Floor killed in Kamchatka Eco-Disaster
• New biochemical research shows past tropical forest changes drove megafauna and hominin extinctions
• Eastern Black Rail gets federal protection under Endangered Species Act
• Up to 1,500 birds flew into some of Philly’s tallest skyscrapers one day last week
• Vietnam conservation regulations improving but much work remains
• Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea
• Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation
• In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’
• Federal government admits killing over 1.2 million native animals in 2019
• New plant species in the Swiss Alps
• Rare Nevada Fish one step closer to endangered species protection
• Antarctic Commission pursues largest conservation action ever taken
• Fires raze nearly half of indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal
• Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with Edna testing
• Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors
• Automakers fueling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco
• Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers
• More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000
• Green Hydrogen from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’ within a decade
• New species of spider with a striking blue face and eight eyes
• Fears for endangered species after hole cut in Zealandia sanctuary fence
• Massive, 50-year-old great white shark dubbed ‘Queen of the Ocean’ found off Nova Scotia
• Wyoming officials call for endangered species reform with grizzly population booming
• Nevada dam changes give rare trout new life 115 years later
• Investors to protect the Amazon, conservation group finds
• We now know why naval sonar leads to mass whale strandings
• 6 dolphins found dead in ‘historic’ stranding in Alabama after Hurricane Sally
• Chernobyl fungus eats nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis
• Cambridge University makes $4.5 billion fossil-fuel divestment promise
• Russian rocket fuel likely cause of marine animal deaths
• Lead cleanup near water source prompts federal indictment of NC city official
• Tasmanian devils return to mainland Australia for first time in 3,000 years
• Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030
• Pope Francis Laments failures of market capitalism in Blueprint for Post-COVID world
• Endangered wildlife, habitat burned in Washington’s wildfires
• New study shows where we should grow more forest to fight climate change
• Researchers probe memory of the Venus flytrap
• Natural gas pipeline explodes in Trinity River
• Scientists put GPS trackers inside fake sea turtle eggs to catch poachers
• Greenpeace drops 1.5 ton rock outside Defra HQ in fishing protest
• Climate lawsuits are finally headed to the Supreme Court
• Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah
• Tasmanian Devils roaming Australia for the first time in 3,000 years
• With activists silenced, China moves ahead on Big Dam project
• France to ban use of wild animals in circuses, marine parks
• 2 new species of pipeworts discovered by scientists in Western Ghats
• Endangered tree species rediscovered in Kerala grove 184 years after first collection
• Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown
• As atmospheric carbon rises, so do rivers, adding to flooding
• Huge 300-million-year-old shark skull found deep inside an underground Kentucky cave
• Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe
• Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar
• NYC’s newest proposed building would be the city’s tallest – and will act as a carbon emissions filter
• Cheating birds mimic host nestlings to deceive foster parents
• New plant species discovered in China’s Yunnan
• California landowners developers: Western Joshua Tree incidental take permits now required
• DEC seeks public input on proposed endangered species protections
• SCDNR brings awareness to endangered Carolina Heelsplitter
• Recognition of Indigenous alliance group most recent in a series of big wins for the Amazon
• Hotter tropics may worsen climate change; reforestation could lessen it
• As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets
• Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters highlights need for preparedness
• Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island
• Ghost frog not seen for 80 years rediscovered in desert hot spring
• Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
• David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature
• Europe is building a digital twin earth to revolutionize climate modelling
• Climate emergency drives noctule bat northwards
• Beaked whale shatters record with 3-hour 42 minute dive