Conservation News ~ October 13 2017

• $100 Million Fund launched to secure indigenous land rights: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/100-million-dollar-fund-launched-to-secure-indigenous-land-rights/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29​
• Senate Bill aims to strip protections from nearly 1100 endangered species: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/endangered-species-09-28-2017.php
• Environment is big winner in US-Mexico Colorado River agreement: https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/10/05/environment-is-big-winner-in-u-s-mexico-colorado-river-agreement
• 25 Species denied ESA protection: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2017/10/04/trump-administration-denies-endangered-species-protection-pacific-walrus-and-two-dozen-oth-25-specie/732704001/
• Over 50 hippos found dead: https://www.newera.com.na/2017/10/06/breaking-news-over-50-hippos-found-dead-in-bwabwata/
• Rare Pygmy Right Whale found in new range: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/ancient-whale-turns-wrong-side-world
• Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa given to anti-poachers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/safaris-and-wildlife/tusk-awards-2017-winners/
• UK Livestock Industry caused extinction of 33 global species: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/eat-less-meat-save-species-and-ecosystems-says-wwf-uk/
• UN releases stamps featuring new endangered species: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/may/12/un-issues-stamps-featuring-newly-listed-endangered-species-in-pictures
• Winifred Kessler receives Aldo Leopold Memorial Award: http://wildlife.org/kessler-celebrates-pinnacle-of-career-with-aldo-leopold-award/
• British Columbia sees more human-wildlife conflicts in 2017: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/human-wildlife-conflict-bc-1.4345561
• Met forensics specialist develops ivory fingerprinting kit: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-forensics-expert-invents-kit-to-catch-african-ivory-poachers-after-daughters-ask-him-to-save-a3654721.html
• Penguin colony disaster as 2 chicks survive from colony of 40,000: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/12/penguin-catastrophe-leads-to-demands-for-protection-in-east-antarctica
• Chevron joins BP in ditching plans to drill Australian bight: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-13/chevron-abandons-oil-drilling-on-great-australian-bight/9045870
• Gucci goes fur-free: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/oct/12/italian-fashion-house-gucci-to-go-fur-free-in-2018-says-ceo
• Sand Cat kittens filmed in wild for first time: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/171012-wild-sand-cat-kittens-filmed
• Remote wildlife camera and suspects’ phones led Northwest investigators to carcasses in biggest PNW poaching case: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/phones-of-poaching-suspects-set-investigators-on-trail-to-carcasses-191-criminal-counts-filed/
• Once declared extinct, Giant Australian Stick Insect is still alive: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/giant-australian-insect-still-alive-despite-being-declared-extinct-nearly-century-ago
• Electric vehicles will drive a $5 Trillion transition: https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/07/electric-vehicles-will-drive-5-trillion-transition/
• BC coal mine company fined $1.4 million for polluting BC river: https://www.desmog.ca/2017/10/06/b-c-coal-mine-company-teck-fined-1-4-million-polluting-b-c-river
• Germany to miss climate targets disastrously: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/11/germany-miss-climate-targets-disastrously-leaked-government-paper/
• Oxford aims for world's first zero emissions zone with petrol car ban: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/11/oxford-aims-to-cut-air-pollution-car-ban-zero-emissions-zone
• Pennsylvania Sunoco Pipeline spills drilling fluid three times in same area: https://www.ecowatch.com/sunoco-pipeline-spill-2495544214.html
• Tanzania: 3 charged in murder of elephant conservationist Wayne Lotter: https://twitter.com/CITES/status/918004187115474945
• Toshiba’s new fast-charging battery could triple the range of electric vehicles: https://newatlas.com/toshiba-scib-battery-triple-range/51667/
• Ten million salmon thrown away by Scottish fish farm in industry in 2016: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15583156.A_disgrace__ten_million_salmon_thrown_away_by_fish_farm_industry_in_last_year_alone/
• Scotland proposes cheap, state-owned energy: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/10/sturgeon-proposes-cheap-state-owned-energy-for-scotland
• World energy hits a turning point: solar that’s cheaper than wind: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/world-energy-hits-a-turning-point-solar-that-s-cheaper-than-wind
• North Atlantic Right Whale population dis below 450 after deadliest year since whaling era: https://www.ecowatch.com/north-atlantic-right-whale-population-2493743084.html
• Brazil’s Temer decrees 1.2 million hectare Amazon reserve: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/indigenous-victory-brazils-temer-decrees-1-2-million-amazon-reserve/
• Navajo Nations first solar project now producing enough electricity for about 13k homes: http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/energy/2017/08/29/navajo-nations-first-solar-project-now-producing-electricity-13-000-homes/613443001/
• Renewables now provide 25 percent of the world’s power: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/renewables-now-produce-22-percent-worlds-electricity/