Conservation News ~ Nov 3 2017

• Only 3 Irrawaddy Dolphins remain in Laos: https://news.mongabay.com/2016/10/only-3-irrawaddy-dolphins-remain-in-laos/
• General Motors is going all electric: https://www.wired.com/story/general-motors-electric-cars-plan-gm/
• New Zealand govt to plant 100 million trees yearly: https://www.ecowatch.com/new-zealand-trees-2500765147.html
• US Fed govt recommends uranium mining in Grand Canyon: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-recommends-uranium-mining-in-the-grand-canyon-dac9e04080d5/
• Top cosmetics company pledges to go vegan by 2020: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=&catId=1
• Australia is having financial concerns about Adani super-mine: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/emails-reveal-officials-probing-environmental-and-financial-concerns-with-adani-supermine-20171102-gzdc5h.html
• Exxon settles air pollution lawsuit, will pay 2.5 million in fines, $300 million for technology: https://www.ecowatch.com/exxon-settles-with-epa-over-pollution-2504932474.html
• Imperial Beach officials say shoreline hit by Tijuana sewage without warning, residents fall ill: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-tj-sewage-spill-20171101-story.html
• Congress’s most notorious climate deniers is calling it quits: https://thinkprogress.org/lamar-smith-retirement-33f4ff4c757a/
• New species of Orangutan discovered in northern Sumatra: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/new-species-of-orangutan-discovered-in-northern-sumatra-tapanuli-pongo-tapanuliensis
• Tropical protected areas reduced deforestation carbon emissions by one third from 2000-2012: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14467-w
• United Nations is sounding alarm about seriously high levels of carbon dioxide:
• https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2017-03-23/secretary-generals-remarks-high-level-meeting-climate-change-and
• California Wildlife win protections from Federal trapping, gunning: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/wildlife-services-11-01-2017.php
• Citing the fucking bible, Scott Pruitt just destroyed the EPA’s scientific advisory boards: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/358043-epa-blocks-scientists-who-get-grants-from-advisory-boards
• 103 Humpback Whales died on Brazilian beaches this year: https://www.sott.net/article/364966-103-whales-have-died-on-Brazilian-beaches-in-2017
• Lost Salamander species rediscovered after 42 years: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/brilliantly-colored-lost-salamander-rediscovered-after-42-years/
• China is seizing the geopolitical opportunities of the melting Arctic: http://thehill.com/opinion/international/357863-china-is-seizing-the-geopolitical-opportunities-of-the-melting-arctic​
• New Zealand to create visas for people displaced by climate change: https://futurism.com/new-zealand-wants-to-create-visas-for-people-displaced-by-climate-change/
• 60% of global biodiversity loss due to land cleared for meat-based diets: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/staggering-60-percent-global-diversity-loss-meatbased-diets/
• Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may be biggest since 2010 Deepwater Horizon: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-may-be-largest-since-2010-bp-disaster
• We may not have enough minerals to meet electric car demand: https://jalopnik.com/we-may-not-have-enough-minerals-to-even-meet-electric-c-1820008337
• India bans wild-animal circuses: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/wild-animals-performance-in-circus-ban-india-central-zoo-authority/1/1076376.html
• Alaska orders review of all north slope oil wells after spill linked to permafrost: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31102017/alaska-oil-wells-review-ordered-thawing-permafrost-cracked-casing-north-slope
• PETA persuades BCBG Brands ban fur and angora: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=10303&catId=1
• Tyson foods linked to largest dead zone in US History: https://www.ecowatch.com/tyson-foods-toxic-dead-zone-2504305201.html
• Wolf kills cow in California for the first time in more than 100 years: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/wolf-kill-livestock-cattle-lassen-pack-wolves-12312297.php
• 16 charged in largest animal trafficking sweep in US: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/16-charged-southern-california-animal-trafficking-sweep-50614928
• UN-backed wildlife conference held in Philippines votes for additional protections on 33 endangered species: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41791842
• Chile bans plastic bags in 100 coastal areas: https://www.ecowatch.com/chile-plastic-ban-2501794220.html
• Jeff Sessions to call environmentalists terrorists: https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/
• US winter has shrunk by more than one month in 100 years: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/us-winter-has-shrunk-by-more-than-one-month-in-100-years
• Czech zoo cheers birth of endangered eastern Black Rhino: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/czech-zoo-cheers-birth-endangered-eastern-black-rhino-50705311
• NM District Court rules against livestock industry in favor of Jaguar habitat: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/2017/10/26/new-mexico-district-court-rules-against-live-stock-industry-plaintiffs-and-favor-critical-habitat-ja/804394001/