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Conservation News ~ 27 September 2019

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Michigan plants 1,000 happy trees to honor painter Bob Ross:
SA teen wins international photography award for rhino dehorning shot:
San Jose to become largest US city to enact natural gas ban:
New species of worm with three sexes discovered in highly salty Californian lake:
Scientists connected fragments of pine savanna and new species keep showing up:
2 Mexican Gray Wold pups die of EEE virus at Michigan zoo:
David Attenborough praises young people for their action on climate change:
Scientists boosted from EPA panel form their own group:
Climate crisis drives Mont Blan Glacier toward collapse:
The world’s oceans are losing power to stall climate change:
Just one tea bag can release billions of microplastics in your drink:
Caribbean Islands are the biggest plastic polluters per capita in the world:
Rhino poachers break bail conditions, flee Zimbabwe:
Resnicks donate record $750 million for climate change research at Cal Tech:
Apple is working to restore African grasslands to curb climate change:
Earliest signs of life- scientists find microbial remains in ancient rocks:
New species of crocodile discovered in museum collection:
China continues intense activity with environment:
Fox News panel on climate change says liberals have forgotten about god and are worshipping the environment:
Goldman Sachs just release a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change:
Indonesian forest fires putting 10 million children at risk, UNICEF says:
Climate activists paint stunning mural on two blocks in SF:
North Sea Cod los sustainability ‘blue tick’ as fish population fails:
Small countries made big commitments at the UN climate summit:
Offshore wind energy price plunges 30 percent to a new record low:
Greta Thunberg is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize:
At least 500 jaguars died or lost their habitat in Amazon fires:
Aerosols from coniferous forest no longer cool the climate as much:
17 states sue Federal Government over weakened Endangered Species Act:
There’s no scenario that stops sea level in this century, UN climate report says:
Major cruise line to abandon plastic water bottles:
Biden’s Climate Adviser earned $1 million from a natural gas company:
Mining billionaire launches $300m war on plastics to tackle ocean pollution:
Norway releases $50m in forest funds to Guyana:
Coral gardeners bring back Jamaica’s reefs:
US Dept of Interior overturns BLM decision in victory for Grand Staircase Forests:
US House Republicans revive plan to cripple Endangered Species Act:
Fossil fuel subsidies reach $87 billion in EU countries:
Switzerland just banned the egg industry from grinding live chicks:
Senate confirms top Interior lawyer accused of lying to Congress:
Blood-red sky in Indonesia’s Jambi forest:
Nine new Fijian bees described:
800-year-old Portuguese University just banned beef:
Brazil’s Bolsonaro tells UN that the Amazon isn’t on fire but full of riches:
Greta Thunberg comes under attack on TV and social media:
Elkhorn Slough benefitting from Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter surrogacy program:
Amazon pledges surprisingly bold climate change goals:
Walrus sinks Russian Navy boat in Arctic Ocean:
US president mocks Greta Thunberg and her speech about climate change:
New species of fossilized sea creature described:
New species of frog discovered in Arunachal:
Gabon becomes the first African country to receive funding for preserving its rainforests:
Google signs up to $2bn wind and solar investment:
Marriot CEO says cutting out single-use toiletries will save 500 million plastic bottles per year:
Greta Thunberg, 15 kids sue five countries in groundbreaking climate lawsuit:
Poor Filipino fishermen are making millions protecting whale sharks:
Call for 1m people to join UK’s biggest mass tree-planting campaign:
7 million people displaced by extreme weather in first half of 2019:
UK unveils 1.2bn for climate and endangered species:
Kruger Park gets gunshot detection system to fight rhino poaching:
Sri Lanka wields mangroves against climate change:
The Amazon’s tallest trees are growing 50% bigger and scientists don’t know how:

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Conservation News ~ 23 September 2019

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Extinction Rebellion: 91-year-old climate protestor arrested near port of Dover:
California sues White House over revoking state’s authority to set car emission standards:
Discovery of an endangered species in a well-known cave raises questions:
Americans are waking up: two thirds say climate crisis must be addressed:
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shuts down:
New bioreactor captures as much carbon as an acre of trees:
Germany unveils $60 billion climate package:
Researchers spot exotic creatures in marine national monument:
Scientists discovered mysterious creature below Antarctica:
Southern resident orcas spotted in Puget Sound:
Australia is running out of drinking water:
First ever Clouded Leopard debuts at Smithsonian’s National Zoo:
230 investors with USD $16.s trillion in AUM call for corporate action on deforestation, signaling support:
Texas is drowning under one of the wettest storms in US history;
Five most wanted Rhino poachers apprehended in Biswanath:
New Zealand insect named after hobbit Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings:
6 new species found in Aarey in 10 years:
Mass climate strike protests held around the world ahead of UN summit:
Conservation group to buy world’s largest privately held Sequoia Forest for $15m:
Distressed dolphin pictured comforting her pod before being slaughtered in mass killing:
Ruling stops Pedal Power timber harvest near Springfield, Or:
Tiny penguin released back into the wild after swimming from New Zealand to Australia:
Isra Hirsi is 16, unbothered, and saving the planet:
Scaling back: graduate invents plastic alternative from fish waste:
California family find mountain lion lounging in their bathroom:
Birds are vanishing from North America – there are 2.9 billion fewer birds than 50 years:
Bald Eagles have found themselves a new home in suburbia:
Colorful new gecko species described:
White House slaps tariffs on solar panels in major blow to renewable energy:
Texas hounds chase down rhino poachers in South Africa:
Arkansas city paying homeless $9.25 an hour to collect trash:
Un secretary general calls climate change an emergency:
Deforestation increase dovetails with armed conflict in Colombia:
Gran Chaco – South America’s second largest forest at risk of collapsing:
We’ve been negligent - Indonesia’s president says as fire crisis deepens:
House democrats advance bill protecting lions, elephants from trophy hunting:
Air pollution particles found on foetal side of placentas:
Bristol Bay salmon are in hot water:
Hadza wins global prize for developing solution on climate change:
This sulfur-spewing Russian volcano is turning sunsets purple:
South Korea confirms African swing fever outbreak:
Outrage in China as Giant Panda on loan to Thailand zoo dies:
England’s carnivorous sundew makes a comeback:
86 tigers rescued from Tiger Temple died in government custody:
Amazon deforestation is driven by criminal networks:
Beef and Dairy industries in death spiral, will collapse by 2030:
A Giant Salamander that lived at London Zoo turned out to be a new species:
Democrats propose bill to revoke White House endangered species:
Ruffed Grouse could make Indiana’s Endangered Species:
Sharks caught on drum lines in Australia must be released:
This is not the Sixth Extinction, It’s the first extermination event:
Obama meets with teen climate activist Greta Thunberg:
Fewer people are taking up hunting, which has hunters worried about sport’s future:
Greta Thunberg to congress: You’re not trying hard enough, sorry:
Huge decline in songbirds linked to common insecticides:
Canadians just crowdfunded $3 million to buy pristine land and save it from new development:
Canada creates two huge ocean sanctuaries in the Arctic:
Outrage as blue shark is cooked and served at Plymouth Seafood festival:
Warming weather is seemingly bringing a new species of bat to DC:
Scientists discover new species of ancient flying reptile in Canada:
David Attenborough to front UK study on biodiversity loss:
Once thought to be extinct, this luck clover has recovered enough to come off the ES list:
SC eagle population soars:
Youngest Kakapo chick of this season reaches 150 days old, meaning a record 213 kakapo:
Major US insurer says it will not longer underwrite and invest in coal:
Luxembourg Peace Prize: Dame Jane Goodall awarded 2019 prize for outstanding environmental peace:
Protected areas best conserve mammalian diversity when connected with corridors:
Desert Tortoise found in Mendocino undergoes surgery at UC Davis:
California Governor says he will veto environmental regulations bill:
Endangered sea turtle found impales with 3-foot long spear in Florida:
New South American butterfly species named for Florida Museum’s Andy Warren:
Eastern Oregon Minnow removed from the Endangered Species list:
US and Brazil agree to Amazon development:
Its not cheaper to build new renewable than it is to build natural gas plants:
Ottawa announces $8.3M to help rid Canadian waters of ghost gear:
Indonesian draws fire to denial of transboundary haze problem:
Plastic food packaging was most common beach trash in 2018:
World losing battle against deforestation:
Hundred of offshore fracking wells dump billions of gallons waste into the Gulf of Mexico:
Japan’s new environmental minister calls for closing down all nuclear reactors to prevent another disaster:
Hoary bat numbers declining at rate that suggests species in jeopardy in Pacific Northwest:
Brazil environment minister to meet US climate denier group before UN summit: