Conservation News ~ June 4 2018

• Largest fish factory vessel in the world arrested and seized in Peru: https://seashepherd.org/news/largest-fish-factory-vessel-in-the-world-arrested-and-seized/
• Indo targets illegal fishing vessels under new bill: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/indonesia-targets-illegal-fishing-vessel-owners-under-new-bill/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Madagascar upholds sentence for environmental activist: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/madagascar-court-upholds-sentence-for-environmental-activist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
• Belize reef recovers: https://www.iucn.org/news/iucn-42whc/201805/world-heritage-danger-belize-reef-recovers-while-lake-turkana-faces-dam-threat-%E2%80%93-iucn?utm_campaign=2068490_Protecting%20the%20Planet%20-%20MAY%202018&utm_medium=email&utm_source=IUCN&dm_t=0,0,0,0,0&dm_i=2GI3,199RF,85JNQE,40UG2,1
• Lake Turkana faces dam threat: https://www.iucn.org/news/iucn-42whc/201805/world-heritage-danger-belize-reef-recovers-while-lake-turkana-faces-dam-threat-%E2%80%93-iucn?utm_campaign=2068490_Protecting%20the%20Planet%20-%20MAY%202018&utm_medium=email&utm_source=IUCN&dm_t=0,0,0,0,0&dm_i=2GI3,199RF,85JNQE,40UG2,1
• Rhino poached outside Port Alfred: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2018-06-01-another-rhino-poached-outside-port-alfred/
• Chile bans plastic bags at retail businesses: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/world/americas/chile-plastic-bags-ban.html
• 39 arrested protesting industrial farm supplying “cage-free” eggs to Amazon and Whole Foods: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/30/39_arrested_protesting_industrial_farm_supplying
• California Senate just voted to phase out deadly driftnets: https://mercyforanimals.org/breaking-california-senate-just-voted-to
• Nine lions found dead in Serengeti: http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Nine-lions-found-dead-in-Serengeti/1840340-4591868-ukp3s4z/index.html
• Everglades National Parks wants you to kill its Burmese Pythons: http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article212188594.html
• Volkswagen to end experiments on animals: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/business/volkswagen-animal-testing-peta-monkeys.html
• Dead whale found with 17 pounds of plastic in its stomach: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/dead-whale-found-thailand-17-pounds-plastic-its-stomach-n879581
• 5 Giant salamander species identified: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/chinese-giant-salamander-species-animals/
• Tonne of endangered whale shark fins discovered on a plane to Hong Kong: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/hong-kong-whale-shark-fins-endangered-smuggling-extinction-risk-a8378626.html
• Mountain Gorilla population has now risen above 1,000: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/mountain-gorilla-population-rises-above-1000
• Plastic water bottles to be banned from Montreal city buildings following unanimous vote: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/plastic-water-bottles-to-be-banned-from-montreal-city-buildings-following-unanimous-vote-1.4683568
• At the edge of the Arctic Circle, oil drilling threatens the indigenous: https://grist.org/article/at-the-edge-of-the-arctic-circle-oil-drilling-threatens-the-indigenous-gwichin/
• Kinder Morgen pipeline: Canadian government to buy project for $4.5bn: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/29/canada-kinder-morgan-pipeline-trans-mountain
• EPA used disavowed research to justify putting dirtier trucks on the road: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pruitt-polluting-trucks-20180528-story.html
• US President’s resort in Ireland will build seawalls to protect against climate change: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-12-22/trump-resort-in-ireland-will-build-seawalls-to-protect-against-climate-change
• Japan killed 120 pregnant whales this year in the name of scientific research: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/more-than-300-whales-were-killed-this-year-in-the-name-of-scientific-research/
• Newly described Araguaian river dolphins: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325395411_The_newly_described_Araguaian_river_dolphins_Inia_araguaiaensis_Cetartyodactyla_Iniidae_produce_a_diverse_repertoire_of_acoustic_signals
• Vietnam’s first Goldman Prize winner pushes for energy conservation: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/vietnams-first-goldman-prize-winner-pushes-for-energy-conservation/
• EU proposes single-use plastics ban: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44280532
• Vancouver votes to ban plastic straws and foam containers: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-plastic-straw-ban-foam-cups-1.4666586
• Return of the bison – herd makes surprising comeback on Dutch coast: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/28/return-of-the-bison-herd-makes-surprising-comeback-on-dutch-coast
• Four whales shot in head on Pacific island beach: http://www.oceansentry.org/four-whales-found-shot-head-pacific-island-beach/
• Us Govt’s offshore oil drilling proposal threatens 68 national parks: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/trumps-offshore-oil-drilling-proposal-threatens-68-national-parks/page-2/
• New Zealand to kill 150,000 cows to end bacterial disease: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/new-zealand-to-kill-150000-cows-to-end-bacterial-disease/2018/05/28/a1ab9dc4-62d6-11e8-81ca-bb14593acaa6_story.html?noredirect=on
• Otters recolonize Singapore following successful river cleanup effort: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/a-tale-of-two-otters-settling-in-singapore-suffering-in-china/
• Zambia resumes barbaric slaughtering of hippos: https://www.zambiawatchdog.com/zambia-resumes-barbaric-slaughtering-of-hippos/
• Emails show collaboration among EPA and climate-change deniers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/emails-show-collaboration-among-epa-climate-change-deniers/2018/05/25/16c056d4-605e-11e8-b656-236c6214ef01_story.html?utm_term=.830d6ec06b5b
• China is using furnaces to manufacture 10 billion tons of rain: https://www.google.com/search?q=China+is+using+furnaces+to+manufacture+10+billion+tons+of+rain%3A&oq=China+is+using+furnaces+to+manufacture+10+billion+tons+of+rain%3A&aqs=chrome..69i57.379j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
• Animal ag companies fined $29m for destroying Amazon: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=11329&catId=1
• Couple busted at Sea-Tac airport with dozens of illegal ivory items: http://komonews.com/news/local/couple-busted-at-sea-tac-airport-with-dozens-of-illegal-ivory-pieces
• Runaway barges full of coal spill into Pennsylvania river: https://thinkprogress.org/coal-barge-spill-pennsylvania-011655d2831b/
• Giant predatory worms have invaded France: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/giant-worms-france-hammerhead-asia
• Rangers face a toxic mix of mental strain and lack of support: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/rangers-face-a-toxic-mix-of-mental-strain-and-lack-of-support/