Conservation News ~ August 27 2018

• Kroger will phase out plastic bags: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641215873/attention-shoppers-kroger-says-it-is-phasing-out-plastic-bags
• US Govt blames local boy and his family dog for ‘cyanide bomb’ detonation that injured him, killed dog: https://idahostatejournal.com/members/us-government-blames-local-boy-and-his-family-for-cyanide/article_3e7d7e8f-3ecf-585b-8ed1-edf8d1dfe1b7.html
• New orchid species discovered in Peruvian Amazon: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/new-orchid-species-discovered-in-peruvian-amazon/
• Brazil hits emissions target early but rising deforestation risks reversal: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/brazil-hits-emissions-target-early-but-rising-deforestation-risks-reversal/
• Murder of activist in India highlights growing risk to environmental defenders: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/murder-of-activist-in-india-highlights-growing-risk-to-environmental-defenders/
• Indo seeks to get palm oil used as jet fuel in US, France: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/indonesia-seeks-to-get-palm-oil-used-as-jet-fuel-in-u-s-france/
• Iceland illegally murdered yet another pregnant Fin Whale: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/iceland-illegally-murdered-pregnant-fin-whale/
• Washington wildlife officials order members of Togo wolf pack killed, lawsuit temporarily delays action: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/aug/20/following-cattle-depredations-wdfw-orders-lethal-r/
• Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year: https://news.utexas.edu/2018/08/22/air-pollution-reduces-global-life-expectancy-by-one-year
• Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for the first time on record: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record
• 36 dead whales discovered in BC and Alaska have scientists worried: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dead-whales-pacific-blob-1.3228268
• Judge blocks order to kill wolf pack to protect cattle: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/washington-kill-members-wolf-pack-protect-cattle-57289106
• Hundreds of trees to be cut down in Vermont before invasive species strike: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/hundreds-of-trees-to-be-cut-down-before-invasive-species-strikes/22794442
• EPA admits US President would sacrifice thousands of US lives to save a few coal plants: https://thinkprogress.org/epa-admits-trump-would-sacrifice-thousands-of-american-lives-to-save-a-few-coal-plants-b426dda2e76f/
• Huge win for water quality, bull trout recovery, taxpayers: https://idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/huge-win-for-idaho-s-water-quality-bull-trout-recovery/article_28c1efc6-fc65-5781-9034-d536237a6cbb.html
• BC Supreme Court sides with Jumbo Glacier Resort: https://www.e-know.ca/regions/columbia-valley/b-c-supreme-court-sides-with-jumbo-glacier-resort/
• New research suggests evolution might favor ‘survival of the laziest’: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-evolution-favor-survival-laziest.html
• Toxic ‘red tide’ blamed for rise of manatee deaths in Florida: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/manatee-deaths-toxic-red-tide-algae-bloom-florida
• Poet, three seniors arrested at Burnaby pipeline protest: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/poet-three-seniors-arrested-at-burnaby-pipeline-protest-1.4067264
• Amazon tribe never seen by outsiders is spotted by drone: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/world/americas/brazil-amazon-tribe.html
• Humanity has killed 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/humans-destroyed-83-of-wildlife-report/
• Overfishing causes crisis in Philippines: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/23/they-are-taking-out-a-generation-of-tuna-overfishing-causes-crisis-in-philippines
• Omaha’s zoo is helping to keep gopher frogs from going extinct: https://www.ketv.com/article/omahas-zoo-is-helping-to-keep-gopher-frogs-from-going-extinct/22760293
• Illegal turtle farm raise nets massive haul including endangered species worth $12g each: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/23/illegal-turtle-farm-raid-nets-massive-haul-including-endangered-species-worth-12g-each-officials-say.html
• 122 sea turtles from an endangered species found dead on Mexico beach: https://guardian.ng/news/122-sea-turtles-found-dead-on-mexico-beach/
• Nearly 40,000 giraffe parts have been imported to the US in last 10 years: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/giraffe-parts-humane-society-report
• Blue star diver operators remove over one tone of marine debris from reefs in Florida Keys: https://marinesanctuary.org/news/goal-clean-seas-update-1/
• China designates eight new RAMSAR sites: https://www.ramsar.org/news/china-designates-eight-new-ramsar-sites
• New EPA rollback of coal pollution regulations takes a major step forward: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/climate/epa-clean-power-rollback.html
• Leopard hunting quota was issued despite official report showing significant population declines: https://africageographic.com/blog/leopard-hunting-quota-was-issued-despite-official-report-showing-significant-population-declines/
• 4 Wyoming wolf pups found dead: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wyoming/articles/2018-08-20/4-wolf-pups-found-dead-on-public-land-in-wyoming
• Icelandic commercial whalers killed a pregnant Fin Whale: http://icelandmag.is/article/outrage-photos-show-hvalur-hf-killed-a-pregnant-fin-whale
• Report detailing lead poisoning in young children on army bases draws fire from lawmakers: https://thinkprogress.org/lead-poisoning-army-report-lawmakers-questions-cedac0026340/
• Indigenous challenge to Adani mine agreement dismissed by Federal Court: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/adani-federal-court-traditional-owners-native-title/10131920
• Courts uphold glyphosate’s spot on California’s Prop 65 list of carcinogens: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/nrdc/courts-uphold-glyphosates-spot-californias-prop-65-list-carcinogens
• Sweden loses highest peak as record temperatures hit Arctic: http://time.com/5357175/sweden-highest-peak-melts/
• DNC reverses ban on accepting fossil fuel industry money: https://therealnews.com/stories/dnc-reverses-ban-on-accepting-fossil-fuel-industry-money
• Two bison bulls bolt from Banff park project: https://www.rmoutlook.com/article/two-bison-bulls-bolt-from-banff-park-project-20180816
• Paleontologist uncover complete Tyrannosaur in Montana: https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/paleontologists-uncover-complete-tyrannosaur-in-montana/article_951c74fe-7d83-5a5c-a068-06a4b2c7bb79.html
• Gulf of Mexico lease sale 251 yields $178 million in high bids: https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/paleontologists-uncover-complete-tyrannosaur-in-montana/article_951c74fe-7d83-5a5c-a068-06a4b2c7bb79.html
• Interior secretary cancels federal proposal to sell off public land inside the former Grand Staircase: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/08/17/interior-secretary/
• Last South African coelacanths threatened by oil exploration: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/17/older-than-dinosaurs-last-south-african-coelacanths-threatened-by-oil-exploration
• A federal judge struck down the administration’s Clean Water Act Attack: https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/federal-judge-strikes-down-administrations-clean-water-act-attack
• Montana moving forward with grizzly bear management objectives: http://www.krtv.com/story/38861006/montana-moving-forward-with-grizzly-bear-management-objectives
• Climate change is emptying the desert of birds: http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/08/climate-change-is-emptying-the-desert-of-birds/
• Appeals court ruling halts giant forest project in Idaho: https://www.apnews.com/4191c755afbe4f18a1287b901f9b0067
• Swift Foxes return to Alberta: https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/swift-foxes-return-alberta
• Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/​