Conservation News ~ November 9 2018

• Researchers say Orangutans are declining, despite Indo government claims: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/researchers-say-orangutans-are-declining-despite-indonesian-governments-claims/
• Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/invisible-plant-enemy-interactions-drive-diversity-in-forest-fragments/
• Parrotfish, critical to reef health, now protected under Mexican law: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/parrotfish-critical-to-reef-health-now-protected-under-mexican-law/
• Australian students plan school strikes to protest against climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/07/australian-students-plan-school-strikes-to-protest-against-climate-inaction
• Orca task force recommends a 3-5 year commercial whale watching ban: https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/orca-task-force-recommends-whale-watching-ban/281-611873318
• Wind farm kills off three quarters of predatory birds: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6354843/Wind-farms-new-apex-predators-kill-three-QUARTERS-predatory-birds.html
• Tribe challenges Corps findings on Dakota Access pipeline: https://apnews.com/86b0d5aa9f55420f9d8d0dd692e1b170
• Man-eating tigress killed after huge hunt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46081484
• Brazil’s new president openly threatens genocide of indigenous Amazonians: https://returntonow.net/2018/11/06/brazils-new-president-openly-threatens-genocide-of-indigenous-amazonians/
• Australia’s remaining wilderness needs immediate protection: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-11-01/wilderness-australia-needs-protection/10447816
• Russia’s Murmansk shipping signs major Arctic coal shipping contract: https://gcaptain.com/russias-murmansk-shipping-signs-major-arctic-coal-shipping-contract/
• Wild sheep and goats in the Yukon to be protected from diseases by control order: https://www.yukon-news.com/news/wild-sheep-and-goats-in-the-yukon-to-be-protected-from-diseases-by-control-order/
• Federal judge blasts Fish and Wildlife Service, says endangered wolves cannot be shot: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/05/federal-judge-blasts-fish-wildlife-service-says-endangered-wolves-cannot-be-shot/
• Canadian University receives $1 million donation to find alternatives to animal testing: https://vegnews.com/2018/11/canadian-university-receives-1-million-donation-to-find-alternatives-to-animal-testing
• Illegal fishing key threat to reefs: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30357033
• Russia investigating ‘whale jail’ holding 101 captured Orcas and Belugas in Pacific Bay: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/05/russia-investigating-whale-jail-holding-101-captured-orcas-belugas/
• New Zealanders working to bring Kiwis back to capital: http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/11/05/new-zealanders-working-to-bring-kiwis-back-to-capital.html
• Carp control innovation removes 289,000 fish: http://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/carp-control-innovation-removes-289-000-fish
• Ruth Gates, who sought to rescue coral reefs, is dead at 56: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/obituaries/ruth-gates-dead-marine-biologist-who-championed-coral.html
• The Amazon is approaching a point of no return: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/the-amazon-might-be-past-the-point-of-being-saved
• AI simplifies statewide study of leopards in south India: https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2018/11/ai-simplifies-statewide-study-of-leopards-in-south-india/
• Sighting of Sperm Whales in Arctic a sign of changing ecosystem: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/05/sperm-whales-canadian-arctic
• Male octopus hatches 10,000 teensy babies in surprise birth: https://www.livescience.com/64013-male-octopus-surprise-babies.html
• Radical plan to create world’s largest marine reserve in Antarctica has been blocked: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/plan-to-create-worlds-largest-marine-reserve-in-antarctica-blocked-by-three-nations/
• Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/local-fishers-oppose-2-7-billion-deal-opening-madagascar-to-chinese-fishing/
• Baby whale rescued from shark net: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-45794805/whale-calf-rescued-from-shark-net-near-australian-coast
• The ozone layer could be fully healed by 2060: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ozone-layer-could-be-fully-healed-by-2060-un-report-reveals-/
• Indigenous Canadians in water crisis as Nestle drains 3.6m liters/day from their land: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water
• Federal biologists struggle for solutions after grizzly bears again listed as threatened: https://wildearthguardians.org/news/federal-biologists-struggle-for-solutions-after-grizzly-bears-again-listed-as-threatened/
• Young activists can sue government over climate change, Supreme Court says: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663887560/young-activists-can-sue-government-over-climate-change-supreme-court-says
• Bison are helping rewild the last of the Midwest’s prairies: https://earther.gizmodo.com/bison-are-helping-rewild-the-last-of-the-midwests-prair-1829693894
• Paleontologists have traced the origin of Kangaroo: https://koztimes.com/paleontologists-have-traced-the-origin-of-kangaroo-2/1587/
• UO scientists uncover a rare Oregon dinosaur fossil: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-scientists-uncover-rare-oregon-dinosaur-fossil
• Stunning drone videos of humpback and gray whales aid new UH marine mammal research: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/11/04/marine-mammal-research-program/
• Black rhinoceros dies at French zoo following operation to extract its semen: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6345961/Black-rhinoceros-dies-French-zoo-following-operation-extract-semen.html
• Ongoing rise in sea levels will increase threats to World Heritage sites: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/ongoing-rise-in-sea-levels-will-increase-threats-to-world-heritage-sites/
• Fisherman jumps on a thrashing whale’s back to save its life: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/california-fisherman-saves-entangled-humpback-whale
• South Africa’s invasive species guzzle precious water and cost US$450 million a year: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07286-0
• Solar arrays could be used as resources for plant productivity: https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/solar-arrays-could-be-used-resources-plant-productivity-study-shows
• Finnish climate scientists are turning food waster into vegan meat and dairy products: https://www.livekindly.co/climate-scientists-food-waste-vegan-meat-dairy/
• Johannesburg Zoo ignores calls to free Lammie the lonely elephant: https://conservationaction.co.za/media-articles/johannesburg-zoo-ignores-calls-to-free-lammie-the-lonely-elephant/
• Schoolboy, 11, sacked over row with Bear Grylls gets a second bite at his shark job: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1600813/schoolboy-11-sacked-over-row-with-bear-grylls-gets-a-second-bite-at-his-shark-job/
• White House concerned Interior Secretary violated Federal rules: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-concerned-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-violated-federal-rules/2018/11/01/e5e4d2f4-dddc-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html
• World first as Scottish tidal turbines connect to grid: https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/world-first-as-scottish-tidal-turbines-connect-to-grid-1-4822133
• China’s search for sand is destroying Mozambique’s pristine beaches: https://qz.com/africa/1430196/sand-mining-in-mozambique-by-chinese-firm-destroys-lives/
• Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/deforestation-continues-upward-trend-in-the-brazilian-amazon/
• 17 new beautiful nudibranch species discovered: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/new-species-colorful-sea-slugs-discovered
• New species mark 1,000 discovered in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/10/18/new-species-discovered-2018-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-lichens-biodiversity-ecoystem/1669321002/
• Oceans are warming up much faster than previously thought: https://newatlas.com/climate-change-ocean-warming-worse/57094/
• Colombia: dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/colombia-dying-of-thirst-wayuu-blame-mine-dam-drought-for-water-woes/
• South Africa announces new Marine Protected Area Network: https://www.sanbi.org/media/south-africa-announces-new-marine-protected-area-network/
• In final effort to revive herds, 6 remaining caribou to be relocated to rearing pen: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/in-final-effort-to-revive-herds-6-remaining-caribou-to-be-relocated-to-rearing-pen-1.4888410
• Seed banking not an option for over a third of threatened species: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181102132830.htm
• Ottawa wants to create new protected areas for killer whales of BC coast: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/killer-whales-bc-1.4887207
• The EPA’s climate change page is just gone now: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjwpz/the-epa-page-that-provided-climate-change-information-is-just-gone-now
• First Coho in 40 years return to Oregon’s Lostine River: https://www.opb.org/news/article/first-coho-in-40-years-return-to-oregons-lostine-river/
• Massive dinosaur bone bed found in E. Cape, South Africa: http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/massive-dinosaur-bone-bed-found-in-e-cape/
• Bow Valley wolf pack rebounds: https://www.rmoutlook.com/article/bow-valley-wolf-pack-rebounds-20181101