Conservation News ~ August 10 2018

This is my brother Harrison's instrument to study atmospheric chemistry. It has a pretty professional and technical name but it sounds like Koala Dome so that's what I called it.

• Widespread groundwater contamination risk from chromium: https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/23/widespread-groundwater-contamination-risk-chromium/
• Meat giant Smithfield fines $473 million for poisoning North Carolinians: https://vegnews.com/2018/8/meat-giant-smithfield-fined-473-million-for-poisoning-north-carolinians
• Alabama beachgoers may have killed hundreds of protected birds: https://abcnews.go.com/US/beach-volleyball-players-alabama-island-killed-hundreds-unhatched/story?id=57081659
• US president’s wildlife protection council is mostly trophy hunters and donors: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/08/01/trumps-wildlife-protection-council-is-mostly-trophy-hunters-and-donors-lawsuit-says/
• Kuala Lumpur river restored breathes new life: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/a-river-restored-breathes-new-life-into-kuala-lumpur/
• Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/madagascar-proposes-paying-illegal-loggers-to-audit-or-buy-their-rosewood/
• Africa’s biggest cobra is five species, not one: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/africas-biggest-cobra-is-five-species-not-one-study-finds/
• Alan Rabinowitz, big cat evangelist and conservationist, dies: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/alan-rabinowitz-big-cat-evangelist-and-voice-of-the-wild-dies-at-64/
• World’s largest battery saved South Australia $8.9 million in 6 months: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/06/analysis-reveals-that-worlds-largest-battery-saves-south-australia-8-9-million-in-6-months/
• Chile just banned plastic bags: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/world/americas/chile-plastic-bags-ban.html
• EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing: https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
• A red tide ravaging Florida may have killed a whale shark for the first known time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/08/03/a-red-tide-ravaging-florida-may-have-killed-a-whale-shark-for-the-first-known-time/?utm_term=.5b6d15fb86f6
• Greenville Zoo announces birth of baby orangutan: https://greenvillejournal.com/2018/08/07/greenville-zoo-welcomes/
• New Report reveals 100,000 dolphins and small whales hunted every year: http://uk.whales.org/blog/2018/08/new-report-reveals-100000-dolphins-and-small-whales-hunted-every-year
• Minke whales win a victory in Iceland: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/iceland-ends-minke-whale-hunting
• EPA reverses decision on air emission standards: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-reverses-course-says-it-will-enforce-stricter-pollution-limits-for-glider-trucks/2018/07/26/705ff4ee-9144-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html
• Ecosystems across Australia are collapsing under climate change: http://theconversation.com/ecosystems-across-australia-are-collapsing-under-climate-change-99367
• Welsh river study reveals ‘troubling’ decline of wildlife: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/05/welsh-river-study-reveals-troubling-decline-of-wildlife
• Chevron must pay or environmental damage in Ecuador: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/chevron-must-pay-for-environmental-damage-in-ecuador-court-rules/
• North Carolina governor says Endangered wolf protection should stay: https://www.apnews.com/5d512eb19720473385dd1235a0303918
• 10 of 11 relocated rhinos dies as Kenya conservation bid backfires: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-rhinos-kenya-critically-endangered-species-almost-all-die-new-home/
• 95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/95-percent-of-all-lemur-species-face-high-risk-of-extinction/
• Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/colombia-bans-the-use-of-mercury-in-mining/
• King Penguin numbers plummet: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45014746
• South Carolina reauthorizes Conservation Bank: http://www.ducks.org/press-room/news-releases/south-carolina-conservation-bank-reauthorized
• New Delhi to run out of groundwater in two years as India faces ‘day zero’ crises: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/19/new-delhi-run-groundwater-two-years-india-faces-day-zero-crises/
• Clemson ends 30-year tradition of balloon launch: http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/38758072/clemson-ends-30-year-tradition-of-balloon-launch
• Brussels bans animal testing on cats, dogs, and primates: https://vegnews.com/2018/7/brussels-bans-animal-testing-on-cats-dogs-and-primates
• Endangered Species Act generates more than $1 Trillion a year : http://time.com/5347260/endangered-species-act-reform/
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• Just 13% of the world’s oceans are still wild: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/new-map-reveals-just-13-world-s-oceans-are-still-wild
• Judge orders US govt to ban all seafood harvested with gillnets in Mexico’s northern Gulf of California: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-vaquita-seafood-ban-20180726-story.html
• Walt Disney Company to eliminate plastic straws and more by 2019: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/walt-disney-company-eliminate-plastic-straws-2019/story?id=56812530
• Ibis that was extinct in wild taught to migrate by following aircraft: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/20/formerly-extinct-ibis-taught-to-migrate-by-following-light-aircraft
• Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/number-of-murdered-environmental-activists-rose-once-again-in-2017/
• 2700 scientists issue call to action on border wall wildlife threat: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/2700-scientists-issue-call-to-action-on-border-wall-wildlife-threat/
• Deforestation skyrockets in the Amazon rainforest: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/deforestation-skyrockets-in-the-amazon-rainforest/
• New frog species names after fabled female warriors: https://www.braveheightsnews.com/2018/07/22/new-frog-species-named-after-fabled-female-warriors-2/
• Target introduces vegan and cruelty-free label to help customers make more ethical purchases: https://www.livekindly.co/target-vegan-plant-based-cruelty-free-labeling/
• Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s and surface, two-thirds of that land is essentially natural: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/indigenous-peoples-control-one-quarter-of-worlds-land-surface-two-thirds-of-that-land-is-essentially-natural/
• New species of venomous snake discovered by accident in Australia: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/new-species-of-venomous-snake-discovered-by-accident-in-australia/
• Dept of Interior director sidesteps climate change in broadside blaming ‘radical environmentalists’ for wildfires: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-and-zinke-blame-environmentalists-not-climate-change-for-the-wildfires-4f5c5109054e/
• New Zealand will ban plastic bags: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/jacinda-ardern-says-new-zealand-will-ban-plastic-bags
• 1.6 million acres of California public lands will be open to fracking: https://www.ecowatch.com/fracking-california-public-lands-2594203156.html
• North American diets require more land than we have, study says: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-north-american-diets-require.html
• France pushes for ‘highly automated’ vehicles by 2022: http://europe.autonews.com/article/20180808/ANE/180809840/france-pushes-for-highly-automated-vehicles-by-2022
• EPA ordered to ban pesticide linked to learning disabilities: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/09/epa-pesticide-learning-disabilities-banned-chlorpyrifos
• Conservationists sue whaling company: http://icelandreview.com/news/2018/08/09/conservationists-sue-whaling-company
• Yellowstone biologists calls bison recovery ‘greatest of all time’: https://trib.com/lifestyles/recreation/yellowstone-biologist-calls-bison-recovery-greatest-of-all-time/article_2f5cf3dc-0fc2-546d-be18-7da30e9e9264.html
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