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Conservation News ~ February 10 2018

2/10/2018

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This little HBird is bringing you the conservation news this week ~ https://flic.kr/s/aHskRmhVYX
  • Four environmental defenders a week killed in 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/02/almost-four-environmental-defenders-a-week-killed-in-2017
  • British Foreign Secretary vows UK will be at forefront of war on ivory trade: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/01/c_136942654.htm
  • Site C Dam eyed to power Yukon’s mining boom: https://www.desmog.ca/2018/01/26/site-c-dam-eyed-power-yukon-s-mining-boom
  • American Meteorology Society sends letter to President saying climate change comments are not consistent with scientific observations: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/meteorological-society-schools-trump-climate-change_us_5a73a1ede4b06ee97af1097a
  • Tesla to sell solar products in 800 Home Depot stores: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/01/tesla-sell-solar-products-800-home-depot-stores/
  • Endangered Angel Sharks found in Adriatic Sea: https://www.deeperblue.com/endangered-angel-sharks-reportedly-found-adriatic-sea/
  • First time in 60 years, spring-run Chinook salmon reproduce in San Joaquin River: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article197490734.html
  • Feds ask for 72% cut in renewable energy programs: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/371692-white-house-to-ask-for-72-percent-cut-in-renewable-energy-programs
  • Largest marine spill in history of natural gas condensate: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20985
  • Climate hero gets three-year prison sentence for shutting down Tar Sands pipeline: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/06/climate-hero-gets-three-year-prison-sentence-shutting-down-tar-sands-pipeline
  • Fifty years of de-icing roads is radically altering the chemistry of America’s drinking water: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/fifty-years-of-deicing-roads-is-radically-altering-the-chemistry-of-many-american-rivers/
  • California bill aims to ban plastic straws: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/59wn88/california-bill-aims-to-ban-plastic-straws
  • Bears avoid trails with motorized recreational activity: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-trails-motorized-recreational.html
  • Stripes of wildflowers across farm fields could cut pesticide spraying: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/31/stripes-of-wildflowers-across-farm-fields-could-cut-pesticide-spraying
  • Court asks feds to review decision to reject ESA protections for Yellowstone bison: https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/court-asks-feds-to-review-decision-to-reject-endangered-species/article_595f3731-dcc8-5111-b59a-981e67187cb7.html
  • Canadian Prime Minister threatens to cut climate regulations for pipeline: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-canadian-provinces-feud-pacific-pipeline.html
  • California has a new wild grey wolf, OR-54: https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local_news/or--leaves-oregon-and-she-s-taking-her-bling/article_6dd5a35c-bc88-5fe8-9675-ba6877c0d804.html
  • Study confirms carbon pollution has ended the era of stable climate: https://thinkprogress.org/carbon-pollution-has-ended-era-of-stable-climate-that-enabled-modern-civilization-fbc0e4a5e476/
  • Polar bears starving as arctic ice vanishes: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/polar-bears-starve-melting-sea-ice-global-warming-study-beaufort-sea-environment/
  • Former national monuments shrunk by Feds to be opened for mining claims: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/02/former-national-monuments-shrunk-by-trump-to-be-opened-for-mining-claims
  • Half of millennials cut out meat: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/millennials-cut-out-meat-because-of-environmental-concerns/
  • Amazon rainforest hit by surge in small-scale deforestation: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/amazon-rainforest-hit-by-surge-in-small-scale-deforestation-study-finds/
  • Chile declares start of coal power phase-out: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/02/01/chile-declares-start-coal-power-phase/
  • January becomes hottest month ever recorded in New Zealand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/02/january-hottest-month-ever-recorded-new-zealand
  • White House to withdraw nominee for top environmental post: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/04/583069522/reports-white-house-to-withdraw-controversial-nominee-for-top-environmental-post
  • Invasive treefrog spotted in Florida: https://www.wptv.com/news/state/invasive-cuban-treefrog-spotted-in-fort-myers
  • Washington state cancels lease for Atlantic salmon farm off Cypress island: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-state-cancels-lease-for-atlantic-salmon-farm-off-cypress-island/
  • Kids sue Colombian government to save Amazon, protect climate: https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/01/colombia-government-protect-climate-amazon/
  • Hunter knocked unconscious by falling, dead goose shot by hunting party: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/04/583110844/hunter-knocked-unconscious-by-falling-dead-goose-shot-by-his-hunting-party
  • Printed solar tiles are thinner, cheaper, and easier to use: https://futurism.com/printed-solar-tiles-are-thinner-cheaper-and-easier-to-use/
  • Elephant and rhino trade investigator is killed in Kenya: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/2018-02-05-elephant-and-rhino-trade-investigator-is-killed-in-kenya/
  • Ivory Coast wildlife trafficking bust turns up 600kg of elephant tusks: https://news.trust.org/item/20180125170411-d99yf

  • Sea Shepherd launches Operation Jodari with Tanzania, makes first three arrests: https://www.seashepherdglobal.org/latest-news/jodari-launch-three-arrests/
  • Tesla to construct virtual solar power plant using 50k homes in South Australia: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/04/tesla-construct-virtual-solar-power-plant-using-50000-homes-south-australia/
  • Animals are using Colorado’s wildlife crossings, reducing collisions: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/03/animal-wildlife-crossings/
  • Rhino protector is gored by elephant: https://citizen.co.za/news/news-cns/1812977/rhino-warrior-gored-by-elephant-in-hoedspruit/
  • Dept of Interior cancels centuries-old Migratory Bird Act: http://www.hcn.org/articles/dc-dispatch-interior-cancels-decades-old-protections-for-migratory-birds
  • Massive rhino horn trafficking operation leads investigators to small Missouri town: http://fox4kc.com/2018/02/05/massive-rhino-horn-trafficking-operation-leads-investigators-to-small-missouri-town-where-2-men-illegally-made-nearly-1-million/
  • Whales and sharks re the new victims of our plastic waste: https://futurism.com/whales-sharks-new-victims-plastic-waste-study-finds/
  • Saudi Arabia plots a shift to renewables: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/business/energy-environment/saudi-arabia-solar-renewables.html
  • Vietnam jails activist for 14 years for livestreaming pollution march: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/06/vietnam-jails-activist-for-14-years-for-livestreaming-pollution-march
  • 13 universities band together to fight climate change: https://grist.org/briefly/13-universities-band-together-to-fight-climate-change/
  • Thai tycoon busted for poaching black leopard: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/thai-construction-tycoon-accused-of-poaching-leopard/articleshow/62802540.cms
  • 12,500 hippo teeth go on sale for “ivory” markets: https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/910522/Hippo-teeth-elephant-ivory-conservationists-auction-Dar-es-Salaam
  • Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster in Ivory Coast: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/13/chocolate-industry-drives-rainforest-disaster-in-ivory-coast
  • EU will only make trade deals with nations that ratify Paris Climate Agreement: https://thinkprogress.org/eu-paris-us-decd4aad9145/
  • Hunter claims accidental shooting of Swiss wolf: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/mistaken-identity_hunter-claims-accidental-shooting-of-swiss-wolf/43877760

  • Ecuador announces a new national park in the Andes: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/ecuador-announces-a-new-national-park-in-the-andes/
  • Alberta’s ecosystems shrinking faster than Amazon rain forest: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/albertas-natural-ecosystems-shrinking-faster-than-amazon-rain-forest-report/article37889101/
  • Idaho stripped climate change from school guidelines: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/climate/idaho-schools-climate-change.html
  • Edinburgh University divests from all fossil fuels: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/06/edinburgh-university-divests-from-all-fossil-fuels
  • Energy Department expects no decline in America’s carbon emissions by 2050: https://grist.org/briefly/the-energy-department-expects-no-decline-in-americas-carbon-emissions-by-2050/
  • Denton poised to become the second 100% renewable energy city in Texas: https://www.sierraclub.org/texas/blog/2018/01/denton-poised-become-second-100-renewable-energy-city-texas
  • California says it will block crude oil from Feds offshore drilling plan: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-offshore/california-says-will-block-crude-oil-from-trump-offshore-drilling-plan-idUSKBN1FR2UY
  • Hunt rider dies after fall from horse: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/rider-fernie-hunt-dies-fall-1153744
  • Trophy-hunting business owner admits to illegally importing deer to Kansas: https://www.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article198543619.html
  • Mountain lions often lose to wolves and bears: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/mountain-lions-often-lose-to-wolves-and-bears-study-finds/
  • Over three billion barrels of Alberta bitumen have spilled into our oceans: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/02/07/analysis/over-three-billion-barrels-alberta-bitumen-has-become-carbon-pollution-absorbed
  • Catherine O’Riordan joins ESA as new executive director: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/02/07/analysis/over-three-billion-barrels-alberta-bitumen-has-become-carbon-pollution-absorbed
  • Banff bison to roam free this summer in park for first time in more than a century: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/banff-bison-1-year-1.4525632
  • Mexican mail service uncover attempt to send tiger cub via post: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/02/mexican-mail-service-uncovers-attempt-to-send-tiger-cub-via-the-post.html
  • US EPA head suggests climate change could benefit humans: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/08/politics/scott-pruitt-climate-change/index.html
  • Coca-cola and Nestle to privatize the largest reserve of water in South America: https://truththeory.com/2018/02/05/coca-cola-nestle-privatize-largest-reserve-water-south-america/
  • Upcycling your clothes could reduce over a billion tons of greenhouse gases: https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/ne4dxq/upcycling-your-clothes-could-reduce-over-a-billion-tons-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions
  • Plastic pollution has reached the pristine Arctic: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-42990391/plastic-pollution-reaching-record-levels-in-once-pristine-arctic
  • Norwegian government has decided that the three remaining wolves in Julussa and Osdalen will be culled: http://www.wolfsongalaska.org/chorus/node/279
  • Tiger Temple to reopen as Tiger Zoo: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/02/07/tiger-temple-reopen-tiger-zoo/
  • Coalminers given approval to clear nearly 10% of endangered forest: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/09/coalminers-given-approval-to-clear-nearly-10-of-endangered-forest-commission-told
  • California says no to oil drilling at Interior Department Hearing: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/californians-say-no-oil-drilling-interior-department-hearing
  • US Dept of Interior prioritizes conservation and big game migration corridors: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-prioritizes-conservation-big-game-migration-corridors
  • Environmentalists head to court in effort to block border-wall construction: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/02/08/environmentalists-head-court-effort-block-border-wall-construction/316767002/
  • Montana won’t allow Yellowstone grizzly hunting this year: https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/montana-won-t-allow-yellowstone-grizzly-hunting-this-year/article_0e2874a5-6e25-5a37-bc97-e3da9157802b.html
  • Critical piece of Native Hawaiian plant conservation completed: http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/01/28/critical-piece-of-native-hawaiian-plant-conservation-completed/
  • Revealed: Trudeau government welcomed oil lobby help for US pipeline push: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2018/feb/09/trudeau-government-welcomed-oil-lobby-help-for-us-pipeline-push-documents
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