Conservation News ~ Jan 14 2018

This gull is telling you all the crazy conservation news headlines...

• Reef bleaching five times more frequent than in the 1980s: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/reef-bleaching-five-times-more-frequent-now-than-in-the-1980s-study-finds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• New species discovered in Malaysian rainforest: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/new-ghost-scorpion-among-several-species-recorded-for-the-first-time-in-malaysian-rainforest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Brazil ends Amazon mega-dam building: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/brazil-announces-end-to-amazon-mega-dam-building-policy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• UN adopts resolution to proceed with high seas protection treaty: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/un-general-assembly-adopts-resolution-to-move-forward-with-high-seas-treaty-negotiations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Indo has a new Honeyeater species: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/meet-indonesias-new-honeyeater-species-from-rote-island/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Alabama salamander gets ESA protection: http://cullmantoday.com/2018/01/03/black-warrior-waterdog-gets-endangered-species-status-1/
• 2017 3rd hottest year on record: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/2017-was-third-hottest-year-on-record-in-u-s-and-costliest-in-terms-of-extreme-weather-and-climate-disasters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Global warming and pollution supersize ocean dead zones: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/global-warming-pollution-supersize-the-oceans-oxygen-depleted-dead-zones/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Sweden hails new Climate Act as most ambitious in world: https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3023688/sweden-hails-new-climate-act-as-most-ambitious-in-the-world
• Wolf found in northern Belgium for first time in over 100 years: http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/wolf-found-in-northern-belgium-first-time-in-over-100-years
• Grace Mugabe implicated in international ivory poaching syndicate: https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-125665.html
• Honey bees attracted to glyphosate and a common fungicide: https://www.reuters.com/article/agriculture-bees-fungicide/honey-bees-attraction-to-fungicide-unsettling-for-food-output-study-idUSL8N1P4442
• Feds say Canada Lynx no longer threatened: https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/feds-say-canada-lynx-no-longer-threatened/article_c55b3329-2119-5a2c-af2d-1540f6db2cd4.html
• Seven new species of spider have been discovered: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/from-charlotte-to-shelob-seven-new-spider-species-are-given-names-from-pop-culture/
• NYC sues fossil fuel industry for climate change: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/nyc-taking-steps-divest-pension-funds-fossil-fuels-52252377
• Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/01/12/giant-extinct-bat-burrowing-bat-fossil-discovered-in-new-zealand.html
• Wars kill wildlife in Africa’s protected areas: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/wars-kill-wildlife-in-africas-protected-areas-study-finds/
• New bird species named after EO Wilson: https://www.rainforesttrust.org/news/new-bird-species-named-father-biodiversity-rainforest-trust-board-member-dr-e-o-wilson/
• Australia’s firehawks found starting fires: https://nerdist.com/australian-firehawks-birds-starting-fires/
• NASA found how fracking fuels global warming: https://thinkprogress.org/nasa-study-fracking-global-warming-0fa0c5b5f5c7/
• California says Nestle lacks permits to extract millions of gallons of water: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/27/573774328/california-says-nestle-lacks-permits-to-extract-millions-of-gallons-of-water
• Climate change is turning 99 percent of baby sea turtles female: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/01/08/climate-change-is-turning-99-percent-of-these-baby-sea-turtles-female/
• Oil drilling not allowed off Florida coast: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/09/us-will-no-longer-allow-oil-drilling-off-florida-coast.html
• Belize bans oil drilling: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/jan/14/belize-bans-oil-activity-to-protect-reef-diving-tourism-belize-barrier-reef
• Germany had to pay people to use their renewable energy over Christmas: https://sciencealert.com/germany-actually-paid-people-use-clean-renewable-electricity-over-holidays-christmas
• Las Vegas Federal judge dismissed case against Bundys: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bundy-mistrial-2018-story.html
• Colorado snowpack worst in more than 30 years: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/06/colorado-snowpack-levels-january-2018/
• Tiger skin trader sentenced to 2 years in prison: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/01/05/tiger-skin-trader-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison.html
• Sydney hits highest temperature ever recorded: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-07/sydney-hits-its-highest-temperature-recorded-in-79-years/9309552
• World’s first solar highway opens in China for testing: https://www.ecowatch.com/china-solar-highway-2520728544.html
• Standing Rock water protector found guilty: https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/standing-rock-water-protector-found-guilty-felony/
• Indigenous groups lead project to save endangered Selkirk Caribou: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/indigenous-groups-lead-project-to-save-endangered-selkirk-caribou/article37509899/
• Western state governors condemn offshore drilling: https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/west-coast-governors-condemn-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-pursuit-pacific-coast-offshore
• Dead zones in the oceans have quadrupled since 1950: https://www.sciencealert.com/dead-zones-in-ocean-quadrupled-since-1950s-killing-marine-life
• Feral cats to be classed as pests in Victoria: https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/invasive-plants-and-animals/invasive-animals-parliamentary-inquiry/feral-cats
• Pennsylvania stopped construction of Sunoco’s pipeline: http://grist.org/briefly/pennsylvania-stopped-construction-of-sunocos-mariner-east-2-pipeline/
• Porcupine caribou have highest numbers on record: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/porcupine-caribou-numbers-1.4471935​