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Conservation News ~ November 2 2018

11/2/2018

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  • Tropical deforestation is the third-biggest carbon emitter in the world: https://psmag.com/environment/tropical-deforestation-leads-to-more-carbon-emissions
  • Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/chinese-demand-wiping-out-forests-in-the-solomon-islands-new-report/
  • Report identifies China as the source of ozone-destroying emissions: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ozone-destroying-emissions-china
  • First Nations ‘Deeply Frustrated’ after BC Supreme Court dismisses Site C injunction: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-west-moberly-first-nation-injunction-1.4877673
  • Baby dolphins thrown back into sea to die as mothers butchered by Japanese hunters: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dolphin-hunting-japan-baby-dolphins-hunt-fishing-taiji-sea-shepherd-cove-guardians-a8585356.html
  • Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/whales-and-dolphins-change-the-way-they-communicate-in-a-noisy-ocean/
  • Olive Ridley Sea Turtles make spectacular comeback in Mexico: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mexico-turtles-20181011-story.html
  • Habitat of endangered Malayan tigers vanishing: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/10/23/habitat-of-endangered-malayan-tigers-vanishing/
  • Bolivian coca crops follow a planned highway through indigenous lands: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/bolivian-coca-crops-follow-a-planned-highway-through-indigenous-lands/
  • Nova Scotia’s Sacred albino moose killed by visiting hunters: https://committeetoabolishsporthunting.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/nova-scotias-sacred-albino-moose-killed-by-visiting-hunters/
  • Wildlife rescue group ACRES to send 50 smuggled star tortoises home to India: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/wildlife-rescue-acres-smuggled-star-tortoises-india-home-10872612
  • Former Monsanto executive picked to lead Wildlife Agency: https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-executive-fws-wildlife-2614834727.html
  • The oil and gas ban shows NZ as a true leader on the hardest issue of our times: https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-10-2018/the-oil-and-gas-ban-shows-nz-as-a-true-leader-on-the-hardest-issue-of-our-times/
  • China reverses 25-year-old tiger bone and rhino horn ban: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702
  • Rescue workers arrive to remove the final animals from the Albanian “zoo from Hell”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6325765/Freedom-Rescue-workers-arrive-remove-final-animals-Albanian-zoo.html
  • “Drunken forests” in Alaska are just another sign of melting permafrost: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw98w5/drunken-forests-in-alaska-are-just-another-sign-of-melting-permafrost
  • Prince William said Buckingham Palace ivory should be destroyed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6327183/Prince-William-clashed-Charles-Buckingham-Palace-ivory-destroyed.html
  • Researchers achieve breakthrough in process to produce hydrogen fuel: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-breakthrough-hydrogen-fuel.html
  • Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/tsetse-fly-numbers-dwindle-in-the-warming-zambezi-valley/
  • Canada’s new Indigenous Protected Area heralds new era of conservation: https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-new-indigenous-protected-area-heralds-new-era-of-conservation/
  • Huge cluster of Octopuses observed southwest of Monterey: https://www.kqed.org/news/11701363/huge-cluster-of-octopuses-observed-southwest-of-monterey
  • Vaquitas with calves seen in September 2018: http://www.iucn-csg.org/index.php/2018/10/26/vaquitas-with-calves-seen-in-september-2018-field-effort/
  • Brazil’s new president will be terrible for the global environment: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/the-guardian-view-on-brazils-new-president-a-global-danger
  • Vietnam launches its first ethical elephant experience: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/oct/23/vietnams-first-ethical-elephant-tours-launch-in-yok-don
  • Italy’s wine industry is being tested by the effects of climate change in its vineyard: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/how-climate-change-is-upending-the-patterns-and-predictability-of-italys-wine-industry/2018/10/28/3ae7a9a0-c71e-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html
  • Vegan chicken named best dish at fried chicken festival: https://vegnews.com/2018/10/vegan-chicken-named-best-dish-at-fried-chicken-festival
  • Rhino anti-poaching member shot: https://www.ecr.co.za/news/news/rhino-anti-poaching-member-shot/
  • Coastal Pacific oxygen levels now plummet once a year: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/28/658953894/coastal-pacific-oxygen-levels-now-plummet-once-a-year
  • Declawing lions, tigers now illegal after Indiana lawsuit against vet who declawed 12 big cats: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2018/10/29/indiana-lawsuit-makes-illegal-across-u-s-declaw-big-cats/1771835002/
  • At the edge of Canada, climate change brings ‘ecological grief’ to Labrador Inuit: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-at-the-edge-of-canada-climate-change-brings-ecological-grief-to/
  • Northern Fur Seal new and recolonized breeding sites have highest population growth rates: https://dereklee.scienceblog.com/168/northern-fur-seal-new-and-recolonized-breeding-sites-have-population-growth-rates-among-the-fastest-of-any-fur-seal/
  • California voters may force meat and egg producers across the country to go cage-free: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/660605016/california-voters-may-force-meat-and-egg-producers-across-the-country-to-go-cage
  • The fight for corals loses its great champion: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/optimist-who-believed-saving-corals/574240/
  • Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/mexico-s-new-science-minister-plant-biologist-who-opposes-transgenic-crops
  • World’s biggest pork producer pledges to cover manure ponds, processing into natural gas: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/29/661064123/worlds-biggest-pork-producer-pledges-to-cover-manure-ponds
  • Many palm oil companies aren’t paying their taxes: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/palm-oil-executives-arrested-in-bribery-scandal-in-indonesia/
  • Animal species becoming extinct in Haiti as deforestation nearly complete: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-animal-species-extinct-haiti-deforestation.html
  • A species revived: How San Diego Zoo helped unlock mystery of panda sex: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-panda-breeding-research-20181101-story.html
  • Southern Right Whale ‘Superpod’ blows hole in record books: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-southern-whale-superpod-hole.html
  • Clean coal startup turns human waste into Earth-friendly fuel: https://futurism.com/the-byte/clean-coal-energy-poop
  • Bitcoin mining along could massively raise global temperatures: https://fossbytes.com/bitcoin-mining-raise-global-temperature-above-2c-by-2033/
  • Mountain birds on ‘escalator to extinction’ as planet warms: https://www.apnews.com/a4465873dd1f44c1b07bf315caef2493
  • Global wildlife has declined by 60% in 40 years: https://www.abc15.com/newsy/wwf-global-wildlife-populations-plummeted-60-in-40-years
  • An island crucial for Sea Turtles  has washed away: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2018/10/29/an-island-crucial-for-sea-turtles-has-washed-away/
  • Air Canada, WestJet latest companies to cut ties to SeaWorld ahead of whale bill: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/air-canada-westjet-latest-companies-to-cut-ties-to-seaworld-ahead-of-whale-bill
  • Utah seeks roadless rule exemption: https://www.fseee.org/2018/10/30/utah-seeks-roadless-rule-exemption/
  • Virginia hawk first bird in North America found carrying invasive tick: https://www.localdvm.com/news/virginia/virginia-hawk-first-bird-in-north-america-found-carrying-invasive-tick/1560920669
  • Models suggest injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere could have unintended consequences: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-sulfate-aerosols-stratosphere-unintended-consequences.html
  • San Diego bids Bon Voyage to Giant Panda Patriarch: https://zoonooz.sandiegozoo.org/2018/10/30/san-diego-zoo-bids-bon-voyage-to-giant-panda-patriarch/
  • Oregon to craft new proposal for managing wolves: http://www.capitalpress.com/Livestock/20181010/oregon-to-craft-new-proposal-for-managing-wolves
  • World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause: https://theconversation.com/world-hunger-has-risen-for-three-straight-years-and-climate-change-is-a-cause-103818
  • 93% of world’s children breathing toxic air which ‘stunts brains’ and causes deadly disease: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/air-pollution-child-death-brain-growth-asthma-pneumonia-toxic-world-health-organisation-a8606626.html
  • Hansjord Wyss pledges $1billion over the next decade to help accelerate conservation: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/newsroom/wyss-foundation-launches-1-billion-campaign-to-help-conserve-30-of-the-planet-by-2030/
  • Wolves may be moving to Western Washington: https://www.kiro7.com/news/north-sound-news/wolves-may-be-moving-to-western-washington/863347341
  • China is turning the rainforest into cheap furniture for the US: https://returntonow.net/2018/10/29/china-is-turning-the-rainforest-into-cheap-furniture-for-the-u-s/
  • $10 billion pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/10bn-pledged-in-new-commitments-to-protect-the-worlds-oceans/
  • Five countries hold 70% of world’s last wildernesses: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals
  • Three Jasper backcountry zones closing to protect caribou population: https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/three-jasper-backcountry-zones-closing-to-protect-caribou-population-1.4154345
  • Greenville leaders call for reauthorization of federal conservation fund: https://greenvillejournal.com/2018/10/31/greenville-leaders-call-for-reauthorization-of-land-and-water-conservation-fund/
  • Greenville Zoo fund primate conservation in Africa: https://greenvillejournal.com/2018/10/31/118748/
  • Saimaa seal population climbs to nearly 400: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/saimaa_seal_population_climbs_to_nearly_400/10457492​
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