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Conservation News ~ December 1 2017

12/1/2017

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  • Indonesia to kick off 10 year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/indonesia-to-kick-off-10-year-plan-to-save-critically-endangered-helmeted-hornbill/
  • New fish species lives 5 miles underwater: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/deepest-sea-fish-identified-snailfish-pseudoliparis-swirei-spd/
  • Bears Ears National Monument to be cut by 85 percent, Grand Staircase-Escalante by half: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/30/trump-to-cut-bears-ears-national-monument-by-85-percent-grand-staircase-escalante-by-half-documents-show/?utm_term=.0dc7d228f547
  • Malaysia seizes 337kg of pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/malaysia-seizes-337-kg-of-pangolin-scales-worth-nearly-1-million/
  • Polar bear skin, 14,000 dead seahorses seized in illegal animal trade bust: https://nltimes.nl/2017/11/29/polar-bear-skin-14000-dead-seahorses-seized-illegal-animal-trade-bust
  • Amnesty calls for criminal investigation into Shell over alleged complicity in murder and torture: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/nov/28/amnesty-seeks-criminal-inquiry-into-shell-over-alleged-complicity-in-murder-and-torture-in-nigeria
  • Creation of the International Wildlife Conservation Council announced: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-announces-creation-international-wildlife-conservation-council
  • Canadian government to introduce new law in 2018 to make polluters pay: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/11/27/news/trudeau-government-introduce-new-law-2018-make-polluters-pay
  • Everglades oil well application rejected: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/g00/local/broward/fl-sb-kanter-oil-dep-20171127-story.html?i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8%3D
  • German court: Ancient forest can be cleared for coal mine: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-court-ancient-forest-cleared-coal-mine-51362826
  • Alberta poison program kills more wildlife than wolves: http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/news/alberta-poison-program-kills-more-wildlife-wolves
  • VW debuts all-electric SUV concept in the US: https://electrek.co/2017/11/29/vw-debuts-all-electric-suv-concept-in-the-us-first-next-gen-ev/
  • Obama-era Climate Deal Accepted: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-quietly-accepts-an-obama-era-climate-deal/
  • Solar panel prices plunge by a shocking 26 percent in one year, wind power getting cheaper too: https://thinkprogress.org/wind-solar-prices-plunge-6fd34b55cb66/
  • Managers, hunters to take at least 600 Yellowstone bison this winter: https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/managers-hunters-to-take-at-least-yellowstone-bison-this-winter/article_6763455b-9044-5d83-998f-4a50333fc589.html
  • Mexican Grey Wolf Recovery Plan released, deeply flawed: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/mexican-gray-wolf-11-29-2017.php
  • Protected Areas across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific boosted with 60 million investment: https://www.iucn.org/news/protected-areas/201711/protected-areas-across-africa-caribbean-and-pacific-boosted-%E2%82%AC60-million-investment
  • Three suspected rhino poachers in court: https://www.enca.com/south-africa/suspected-rhino-poachers-to-be-sentenced
  • Vietnamese blogger gets 7 years in jail for reporting on toxic spill: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/world/asia/vietnam-nguyen-van-hoa-blogger.html
  • Rhinos Without Borders moves a further 40 rhino to Botswana: https://www.andbeyond.com/conservation-and-community/care-of-the-wildlife/rhinos-without-borders/
  • About half of hydraulically fractured wells exist within 2 to 3 kilometers of domestic groundwater: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-hydraulically-fractured-wells-kilometers-domestic.html
  • Oregon couple rescues endangered sea turtle: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/11/oregon_couple_rescues_endanger.html
  • Surfers sick from Tijuana Sewage Spill: http://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/surfers-sick-from-tijuana-sewage-spill-local-agencies-fail-to-protect
  • Australian Zoo celebrates birth of second black rhino baby – one of rarest animals on Earth: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/rare-black-rhino-born-australian-zoo
  • Nestle has extracted one billion liters of water on expired permits: https://news.vice.com/story/protests-mark-nestle-extracting-one-billion-litres-of-water-on-expired-permits
  • Record low sea ice in Alaska waters in fall 2017: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/record-low-sea-ice-alaska-waters-fall-2017
  • Black bears return to eastern Nevada after 80 years: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/black-bears-back-eastern-nevada-80-year-absence-51394241
  • Egg company reports $74 million loss due to vegan alternatives: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9835&catId=1
  • Pavan Sukhdev has been named as the new president of WWF International Board: http://wwf.panda.org/?316974/Pavan-Sukhdev-named-as-new-President-of-WWF-Internationals-Board
  • Chile to ban plastic bags: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-chile-plastic-bags-coastal-regions.html
  • Alleged rhino killers arrested at Kruger National Park: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2017-11-27-alleged-rhino-killers-arrested-at-kruger-national-park/
  • 15,000 scientists from 184 countries urge people to go vegan to save planet: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/11/15/15000-scientists-from-184-countries-just-issued-a-dire-warning-to-humanity/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
  • North Atlantic’s greatest survivors, Right Whales, are hunted once more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/25/whales-right-atlantic-conservation-sea-fishing-extinct
  • Elon Musk fulfilled his promise to make a megabattery for Australia in 100 days: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-megabattery-australia/
  • To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar's forests: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/to-feed-a-growing-population-farms-chew-away-at-madagascars-forests/
  • Kakapo comeback: Recovering: https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/kakapo-comeback
  • Tigers at the center of animal welfare lawsuit sent to wildlife refuge: http://newsok.com/tigers-at-the-center-of-animal-welfare-lawsuit-sent-to-wildlife-refuge/article/5573387
  • Mexico creates huge marine national park: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42120610
  • Fukishima plant owner decides to dump 777,000 tons of nuclear waste into the ocean: http://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-nuclear-waste-dumped-ocean-japanese-protests-637108
  • Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/brilliant-blue-tarantula-among-potentially-new-species-discovered-in-guyana/
  • Trophy hunting removes ‘good genes’ and raises extinction risks: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42152393
  • IUCN creates cryptocurrency to fund conservation areas: http://cryptonewsmonitor.com/2017/11/27/iucn-to-develop-the-worlds-first-cryptoconservation-application-for-nature-conservation-the-iucn-green-list-standard-token-will-be-launched-on-sunday-26th/
  • Ending trophy hunting could actually be worse for endangered species: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/24/opinions/trophy-hunting-decline-of-species-opinion-dickman/index.html​
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