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I generally focus on conservation issues effecting biodiversity, land use/abuse, research, and job opportunities that I have come across. Most of the opportunities come from the Opps page and you can click on the button below to take you there.
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Conservation News ~ 20 November 2020

11/20/2020

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  • Lews Hamilton urges 30 million fans to go vegan on heels of historic Formula One win
  • Fears for a million livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania as Mara River fish die out
  • 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions
  • A wave of infrastructure projects to cause widespread deforestation in coming decades
  •  A new species of Rain Frog (Brevicipitidae, Breviceps) endemic to Angola
  • New species of fish found in Asifabad dist
  • World’s Largest Seagrass Restoration Project is a Virginia Success, Planting 600 Acres That Grow to Become 9,000
  • White House Pushes New Environmental Rollbacks On Way Out The Door"
  • Unlikely Alliance of Farm, Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change
  • Tribes Sue Interior for Approving Keystone XL Pipeline Route
  • Loeffler-Warnock Ga. Senate Runoff Offers Extreme Contrasts on Climate
  • Fossil Fuel lobbyist To Seek Top Spot On Energy And Natural Resources Committee"
  • Flint, Other Defendants Agree To Settle Water Lawsuit For $641.2 Million
  • Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Advisers Quit Over Pipeline Permit
  • The Tegu, a Dog-Size Lizard, Is Spreading Through The Southeastern U.S.
  • Race to save Romania’s 65 million year old fish
  • A Philippine community sees life-saving payoffs  from restoring its mangroves
  • Benin Navy nabs trawler fishing illegally near ecological reserve
  • Michigan Governor moves to prevent Great Lakes oil spill by shutting down aging pipeline
  • New species  - tiny snail with ‘muffin-top’ discovered in Laos cave
  • Paleontologists uncover three species of extinct walruses in Orange County
  • Court upholds Obama-era protections for Alaska’s brown bears, disallows baiting
  • 16 organizations that will be receiving first $800 million from The Bezos Earth Fund
  • Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission is honored with the George Rabb Conservation Medal
  • The UK just created a huge marine sanctuary in the remote South Atlantic
  • Canada shocked by killing of rare white moose
  • Scientists find and destroy Giant Murder Hornet nest in Washington State
  • Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China
  • White House moves to sell oil rights in Arctic Refuge
  • Indigenous group scoops up billion dollar seafood firm
  • Conservation Groups sue USFWS to save wild Red Wolves
  • Seychelles waters’ depths reveal discoveries of new species
  • Scientists discover 5 new species of vine snake in India
  • DNR seeks public input for updated wolf management
  • Joint effort to rescue endangered native pond turtles proves successful
  • California rules insects not protected by Endangered Species Act
  • Scientists measure the true cost of conservation
  • New fish species found in Kawal Tiger Reserve
  • Common herbicide likely to harm endangered species, US EPA says
  • Bribery-tainted coal plant in Indonesia held up as landowners hold out
  • ‘We packed long underwear and never wore it’: Arctic scientists shocked at warming
  • Russia rules out cutting fossil fuel production in next few decades
  • Tiny Atlantic island takes giant leap towards protecting world’s oceans
  • Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on indigenous lands
  • World heritage status for Scottish peat bogs could help UK hit net zero goals
  • Elizabeth Warren calls out CEOs for ‘weak and meaningless’ climate commitments
  • Ending greenhouse gas emissions may not stop global warming
  • San Francisco bans natural gas in new building
  • Expert panel recommends Victorian platypuses to be listed as vulnerable
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Conservation News ~13 November 2020

11/13/2020

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  • Only 1% of British Columbia’s old growth forests remain
  • Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest
  • Scientists in Costa Rica are growing new corals to save reefs
  • A global seaweed ‘plague’ threatens West Africa’s coastline
  • New pterosaur species found hiding in plain sight in museum
  • An invasive toad in Mauritius is eating away endangered species
  • Japanese town deploys monster wolf robots to deter bears
  • Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua
  • Philippine resort owner hit with environmental charges as Boracay cleans up
  • A new conservation project is created in Costa Rica thanks to COVID
  • As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Patanal policies
  • Renewable energy defies COVID to hit record growth in 2020
  • Japan’s new leader sets ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2050
  • BP plans move into green hydrogen production
  • Coalition launches challenge to Federal Wolf delisting
  • Biden announces energy, environment transition team members
  • Potter Park Zoo announces birth of critically endangered species
  • Scientists discover new endangered primate species, with only 260 left
  • California wolf recovery imperiled after removal from endangered species list
  • China wildlife crime prosecutions up sharply after COVID outbreak
  • Scientists just discovered 12,000 new species of microbes
  • Endangered Species Act protection sought for Oregon Coast Tiger Beetle
  • Evo Morales makes triumphant return to Bolivia
  • Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes an anti-mining agenda
  • Indiana environmental group joins others in suing EPA over industrial flares
  • Victoria plans 300mw Tesla battery to help stabilize grid as renewables increase
  • Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo
  • A warming Arctic is changing animal migrations, decades of tracking shows
  • US Army Corps warns Lake Okeechobee could rise by 10 inches as Eta crosses South Florida
  • Two new species of marsupials discovered in Australia
  • Grey Wolves no longer Federally protected starting January 4 2021
  • Electric fence on the Indo-Nepal border puts migrating elephants and humans at risk
  • Oil drilling, possible fracking planned for Okavango region – elephants’ last stronghold
  • Chinese demand and domestic instability are wiping out Senegal’s last forests
  • Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation
  • Custom solutions beat one-size-fits-all approach to mangrove restoration
  • Wealthy countries edge towards global climate finance goal
  • California bars insurers from dropping policies in wildfire areas
  • Renewables cut Australia’s emissions more than COVID, energy analysts finds
  • First ever Rewilding Training Tourism programme kicks off
  • Tireless volunteers and Navy in Sri Lanka just saved 120 whales from stranding
  • UN builds momentum for restoring forests as world enters key decade for ecosystems
  • Study first to tally biomass from oceanic plastic debris using visualization method
  • Newsom signs law keeping San Onofre beach off limits to toll road
  • White Shark populations rise off California coast
  • Our galaxy holdes at least 300 million potentially habitable planets
  • In historic move, Colorado Voters decide to reintroduce Gray Wolves
  • Permit for controversial $9 billion plastics plant in chemical alley to be put on hold
  • Senator pushes plan to conserve 30% of US by 2030
  • Golden Jackals expected to emerg in Belgium
  • $7,600 reward offered for info on wolf poaching in Eastern Oregon
  • Wildfires have killed an estimated 600 jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands – vets are using stem cells
  • Shell’s Twitter fail – we want You to solve climate change
  • Carnivores living near people feast on human food, threatening ecosystems
  • Two new greater glider species discovered: Australia’s biodiversity just got a lot richer
  • Petrified Forest National Park reveals new species of ancient mammal relative
  • Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities
  • Frustration as Antarctic conservation summit fails to declare marine sanctuaries
  • Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest
  • How we discovered three new species of penguin in the Southern Ocean
  • New species of invasive crop-destroying bug found in Florida
  • Sri Lankans save pilot whales in epic rescue after mass stranding
  • Philippines declares no new coal plants – but lets approved projects through
  • Lizard skull fossil is new and perplexing extinct species
  • Dr. Gladys receives Uganda Veterinary Association 2020 World Veterinary Day Award
  • 11th Circuit discusses conservation easements and the granted-in-perpetuity requirement
  • New species of millipede discovered in Kerala
  • Rescue operations underway in the San Gabriel Mountains for rare species marooned by wildfire
  • Two new species of plant group known for its varied medicinal properties discovered in Western Ghats
  • ESRI co-founder Jack Dangermond: People and planet are inextricably linked
  • IPBES report details path to exit current pandemic era
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Conservation News ~ 30 October 2020

10/30/2020

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  • Gray Wolves to be removed from Endangered Species List
  • Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests
  • It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
  • The next generation of power plants will be virtual
  • Scientists discover a 'weird' molecule in Titan’s atmosphere that could be a precursor to complex compounds that form or feed possible life on the Saturn moon
  • A new reef discovered in the Great Barrier Reef and it’s taller than the Empire State Building
  • 240 Million year old marine predator species with fang like teeth uncovered in China
  • Lawsuit launched to force Feds to update recovery plan for endangered California fish
  • Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore
  • South African activist killed as contentious coal mine seeks to expand
  • Antarctic Ice Sheet is primed to pass irreversible climate thresholds
  • American Forests CEO Jad Daley: We are one nation under trees
  • EPA oks soybean, cotton farmers use of dicamba weedkiller
  • White House buries dozens of clean energy studies
  • South Korea’s targets carbon neutrality by 2050
  • Researchers find a new species of gall wasp – a possible parasite of a parasite
  • Two arrested in Chetumal with drugs and endangered species specimens
  • Lawsuit launched to stop damaging hunting practices from killing endangered wildlife on refuges
  • Sleeping giant - Arctic methane deposits starting to release
  • Discovery adds new species to Rice lab’s ghoulish insect menagerie
  • Researchers discover new species of gall wasp
  • Land restoration can profoundly benefit people and the environment
  • Latest estimate shows 11 percent decline in North Atlantic right whale population
  • As their population plummets, right whales verge on extinction
  • Godfather of Peruvian falcons uncovers peregrine’s epic journey from the Arctic
  • Court allows referendum on mining in the Ecuadoran Andes to go forward
  • Sea ice has yet to form off of Siberia, worrying scientists
  • USFWS removing Endangered Mexican Wolves from the wild to protect cows
  • Water on the moon could sustain a lunar base
  • New species of Echinops found in Sahyadri mountains
  • Endangered White Rhino born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park
  • In Madagascar, endangered lemurs find a private refuge
  • Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants
  • Cherokee Nation gives eco0friendly boost to community centers
  • 3 Sanparks staff members arrested on suspicion of rhino poaching
  • Over 5,600 fossil fuel companies have taken at least $3bn in US COVID
  • More than 7,000 dead seals found along Namibian beach
  • Congress acknowledges 155-year-old betrayal of Warm Springs and Wasco Tribes
  • Only 1% of British Columbia’s old growth forests remain
  • Himachal: 9 new animal species discovered; one named after high school student
  • EU votes to allow veggie meats to be called ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’
  • Atlantic trends can predict Amazon drought 18 months away
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Conservation News ~ 23 October 2020

10/23/2020

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  • Groundbreaking study finds 13.3 quadrillion plastic fibers in California’s environment
  • Zimbabwe has gone 12 months without an elephant being killed by poachers at Mana Pools National Park
  • Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant closes for good
  • Philippine court upholds open-pit mining ban in Mindanao
  • Orangutan conservationist from Hull honoured by the Queen
  • Locals warn derelict barge ‘Nabarima’ about to spill 55 million gallons of oil and no one is helping
  • Tropical cyclones moving faster in recent decades
  • Latest evaluation shows Europe's nature in serious, continuing decline
  • Japan to release radioactive Fukushima Water into ocean
  • Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort
  • To protect nature, bring down the walls of fortress conservation
  • Ozone Hole over Antarctica has grown much deeper and wider in 2020
  • Lawsuit – Feds ignore risk of huge spills to endangered species
  • Madagascar shuts down illegal gold mine but activists remain in legal limbo
  • Digital land grab deprives traditional LatAm people of ancestral lands
  • US climate report moves ahead after complaints about delays
  • The Big Oil side hustle – where renewable money is really going
  • Scientists discover a way to turn plastic waste into clean fuel
  • Seven new species of diatoms discovered from Western Ghats
  • China says environment still grim despite 5 years of progress
  • Endangered Species protection sought for snake-like Central California lizard
  • Department of Energy picks two advanced nuclear reactors for demonstrations projects
  • Ecuador Indigenous accuse state of crimes against humanity
  • At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully protected parks to survive
  • Research links individual pig farming and virus outbreaks
  • China’s rare birds may move north as the climate changes
  • Poland’s once-mighty coal industry is in retreat
  • Gray Wolf will lose endangered species protection contrary in scientific evidence
  • A new bacteria from diseased walnut discovered in Portugal
  • Researchers discover three new species of damselflies in the Western Ghats
  • Dragon snakeheads – strange new underground fish – discovered in India
  • French dairy giant accused of polluting country’s famous rivers for years
  • Harvest of Horseshoe Crabs for blood challenged at SC Wildlife refuge
  • White House reverses decision to reject California request for wildlife relief
  • Judge invalidates Pendley’s BLM decision
  • Wildfire smoke in US exposes millions to hazardous pollution
  • Shippers close to global deal to cut greenhouse gas pollution
  • Galapagos: Chinese fishing fleets and COVID threaten a natural wonder
  • After 20 years,  aquarium finds out its rays are a new species
  • Lawsuit says trophy hunting hurts giraffe populations
  • Wildfire emergency in Bolivia as fires threaten animal sanctuary
  • Singapore’s plan to plant 1 million native trees will protect species
  • Oregon’s last coal plant shuts down for good as wind power progresses in Virginia
  • Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona
  • New species of listeria genus discovered and baptized
  • In Guatamala, refugees find new calling as park rangers
  • Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry
  • Climate change likely drove early human species to extinction
  • Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies
  • Canada’s last breeding pair of endangered spotted owls found in valley slated for imminent logging
  • Unsealed docs show Union Carbide leaked toxics into creek for years
  • Shuffle of EPA’s science advisors elevates those with industry ties
  • Earth breaks September heat record
  • Wind-stoked wildlfire in Colorado is largest in state history
  • Japan to release Fukishima’s contaminated water into sea
  • Polluted air killing a half a million babies a year across globe
  • We’ve built enough fences to stretch to the sun – but still don’t understand their effects here on Earth
  • 1st-ever footage of giant pandas mating in the wild is not ‘cute and cuddly’
  • Crucial meeting could expand protection of Antarctic waters
  • Whale poo is powering the world’s rainforests
  • Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow
  • Illegal industrial and mining activities continue in great Indian Bustard’s habitat in Maharashtra
  • Spain unveils climate law to cut emissions to net xero by 2050
  • Alarm as sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
  • Famous Australian cattle station once owned by Kerry Packer earmarked for massive solar farm
  • Advocates welcome ‘inspiring; ocean-based climate solutions act as exactly what America needs right now
  • California’s mega fires have arrived 30 years early
  • Greta Thunberg accuses MEPs of ‘surrender on climate and environment’
  • 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life
  • US Defense Department wants to expand Air Force bombing operations at the largest wildlife refuge
  • British Columbians want more parks, even if it means less mining and logging
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Conservation News ~ 16 October 2020

10/16/2020

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  • Harvard fund evades justice in land-grabbing case over Cerrado farm                      
  • Researchers discover fossils of new species of reptile in Arizona
  • AG Opposes White House’s Proposal Against Endangered Species Act     
  • Burn scars, winter storms threaten rare and endangered species in San Gabriel Mountains
  • Animal conservation groups to sue federal government over dwindling giraffe population
  • Professor Claire Kremen wins the coveted Volvo Environment Prize 2020
  • Critically Endangered Red Wolf Illegally Killed in August; Only 7 Known to Remain in Wild
  • Maui has begun the process of managed retreat and it wants big oil to pay the cost of sea level rise
  • NASA and international partners sign Artemis Accords
  • Imperiled desert tortoises join California’s endangered list
  • Bobcat fire aftermath threatens endangered species in San Gabriel Mountains
  • Michigan poacher who killed 18 wolves and bald eagle gets hunting license revoked for life
  • Greener play areas boost children’s immune systems
  • In the horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’
  • The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals
  • Indonesia’s new deregulation law to hurt small fishers, coastal communities
  • Canada will ban plastic bags by end of next year
  • China still allowing use of pangolin scales in traditional medicine
  • Israel moves to ban ‘immoral’ animal fur trade
  • 3,500 tuna held in cages illegally for a year finally released
  • Over 30,000 sea turtles eggs seized from trick in Oaxaca
  • Judge strikes down Obama-era rule limiting methane pollution, Big Oil is ‘overjoyed’
  • Environmentalists and dam operators, at war for years, start making peace
  • New aloe species discovered from a desert in northwestern India
  • Terrifying new species of turkey-like dinosaur discovered in the Gobi Desert
  • Indonesia is putting business before the environment and that could be disastrous for its rainforest
  • God intended it as a disposable planet: the US pastor preaching climate change
  • Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation
  • Nobel laureate who helped save the ozone layer dies
  • Tucson heat prompts AZ leaders to consider declaring a Climate Emergency
  • CA Exide battery recycling plant left big toxic mess, could it walk away
  • COVID-19 outbreak kills nearly 10,000 minks on Utah fur farm
  • David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature
  • Public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge’s order
  • BLM acquisition boosts access by public along Gunnison River
  • Researchers map the anatomy of the mysteriously shaped beetle
  • New species of ancient maritime predators discovered in Morocco
  • Conservationists condemn US failure to protect wolverines
  • When the US and China fight, it is the environment that suffers
  • Carbon capture ‘moonshot’ moves closer as billions of dollars pour in
  • Maryland will become the first state to ban foam food service products
  • Six new species of butterflies add colour to Kondapalli reserve forest
  • Real and imminent extinction risk to whales
  • People, not carbon emissions, should be at the heart of the west’s climate action
  • Puerto Rican Harlequin Butterfly proposed for Endangered Species Act protection
  • RBC becomes first major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge
  • Hidden beneath the Ocean’s surface, nearly 16 million tons of microplastic
  • The Marangoni effect can be used to obtain freshwater from the sea
  • New evidence suggests China’s dark vessels poached in Galapagos waters
  • Madagascar’s top court criticizes government handling of mining project
  • Brazil reports lower deforestation, higher fires in September
  • Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon
  • We’re not protecting enough of the right areas to save biodiversity
  • On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species
  • The Union of BC Indian Chiefs has released a resolution about the fate of old-growth forest in BD
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Conservation News ~ 9 October 2020

10/9/2020

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  • Environmental group sues Fort Huachuca to release documents about harm to river        
  • A new species of Darwin wasp from Mexico named in observance of the 2020 quarantine period
  • New species of aquatic mice discovered, cousins of one of the world's rarest mammals
  • USFWS pulls wolverine protection proposal
  • Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities
  • Mr. Pail Mafabi, a leader in Ecosystem Management, passes away
  • Public can speak on Nashville Crayfish Endangered Status
  • Britain, Canada, EU throw weight behind 2030 biodiversity protection goal
  • 95% of Marine Life on Sea Floor killed in Kamchatka Eco-Disaster
  • New biochemical research shows past tropical forest changes drove megafauna and hominin extinctions
  • Eastern Black Rail gets federal protection under Endangered Species Act
  • Up to 1,500 birds flew into some of Philly’s tallest skyscrapers one day last week
  • Vietnam conservation regulations improving but much work remains
  • Blooms driven by climate change threaten to smother marine life in Arabian Sea
  • Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation
  • In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’
  • Federal government admits killing over 1.2 million native animals in 2019
  • New plant species in the Swiss Alps
  • Rare Nevada Fish one step closer to endangered species protection
  • Antarctic Commission pursues largest conservation action ever taken
  • Fires raze nearly half of indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal
  • Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with Edna testing
  • Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors
  • Automakers fueling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco
  • Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers
  • More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000
  • Green Hydrogen from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’ within a decade
  • New species of spider with a striking blue face and eight eyes
  • Fears for endangered species after hole cut in Zealandia sanctuary fence
  • Massive, 50-year-old great white shark dubbed ‘Queen of the Ocean’ found off Nova Scotia
  • Wyoming officials call for endangered species reform with grizzly population booming
  • Nevada dam changes give rare trout new life 115 years later
  • Investors to protect the Amazon, conservation group finds
  • We now know why naval sonar leads to mass whale strandings
  • 6 dolphins found dead in ‘historic’ stranding in Alabama after Hurricane Sally
  • Chernobyl fungus eats nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis
  • Cambridge University makes $4.5 billion fossil-fuel divestment promise
  • Russian rocket fuel likely cause of marine animal deaths
  • Lead cleanup near water source prompts federal indictment of NC city official
  • Tasmanian devils return to mainland Australia for first time in 3,000 years
  • Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030
  • Pope Francis Laments failures of market capitalism in Blueprint for Post-COVID world
  • Endangered wildlife, habitat burned in Washington’s wildfires
  • New study shows where we should grow more forest to fight climate change
  • Researchers probe memory of the Venus flytrap
  • Natural gas pipeline explodes in Trinity River
  • Scientists put GPS trackers inside fake sea turtle eggs to catch poachers
  • Greenpeace drops 1.5 ton rock outside Defra HQ in fishing protest
  • Climate lawsuits are finally headed to the Supreme Court
  • Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah
  • Tasmanian Devils roaming Australia for the first time in 3,000 years
  • With activists silenced, China moves ahead on Big Dam project
  • France to ban use of wild animals in circuses, marine parks
  • 2 new species of pipeworts discovered by scientists in Western Ghats
  • Endangered tree species rediscovered in Kerala grove 184 years after first collection
  • Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown
  • As atmospheric carbon rises, so do rivers, adding to flooding
  • Huge 300-million-year-old shark skull found deep inside an underground Kentucky cave
  • Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe
  • Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar
  • NYC’s newest proposed building would be the city’s tallest – and will act as a carbon emissions filter
  • Cheating birds mimic host nestlings to deceive foster parents
  • New plant species discovered in China’s Yunnan
  • California landowners developers: Western Joshua Tree incidental take permits now required
  • DEC seeks public input on proposed endangered species protections
  • SCDNR brings awareness to endangered Carolina Heelsplitter
  • Recognition of Indigenous alliance group most recent in a series of big wins for the Amazon
  • Hotter tropics may worsen climate change; reforestation could lessen it
  • As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets
  • Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters highlights need for preparedness
  • Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island
  • Ghost frog not seen for 80 years rediscovered in desert hot spring
  • Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
  • David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature
  • Europe is building a digital twin earth to revolutionize climate modelling
  • Climate emergency drives noctule bat northwards
  • Beaked whale shatters record with 3-hour 42 minute dive
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Awesome Conservation Jobs ~ 4 October 2020

10/4/2020

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  • Project Drawdown, remote – Director of Drawdown Lift: https://drawdown.org/careers/director-of-%E2%80%9Cdrawdown-lift%E2%80%9D
  • Friends of Trees, PDX Oregon – Executive Director: https://www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-executive-director-portland-oregon/1972806436
  • Pacific Land Trust, Bay Area – Executive Director: https://www.pacifica-land-trust.org/2020/09/17/the-plt-is-hiring-an-executive-director/
  • Pacific Wildlife Care, Morro Bay – Executive Director: https://apply.workable.com/pacific-wildlife-care/j/2C78DEC205/apply/
  • The Nature Conservancy, Idaho – Conservation Director: https://careers.nature.org/psc/tnccareers/APPLICANT/APPL/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_CAREERS_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&PortalActualURL=https%3a%2f%2fcareers.nature.org%2fpsc%2ftnccareers%2fAPPLICANT%2fAPPL%2fc%2fHRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL%3fPage%3dHRS_CAREERS_FL%26Action%3dU%26FOCUS%3dApplicant%26SiteId%3d1&PortalRegistryName=APPLICANT&PortalServletURI=https%3a%2f%2fcareers.nature.org%2fpsp%2ftnccareers%2f&PortalURI=https%3a%2f%2fcareers.nature.org%2fpsc%2ftnccareers%2f&PortalHostNode=APPL&NoCrumbs=yes&PortalKeyStruct=yes
  • Conservation International, remote – Blue Carbon Finance Fellow: https://chu.tbe.taleo.net/chu04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CONSERVATION&cws=39&rid=1379
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Conservation News ~ 2 October 2020

10/2/2020

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  • Judge Removes Public Lands Boss for Serving Unlawfully
  • Area of zero tolerance enlarged to protect endangered vaquita
  • Land defenders are killed in the Philippines for protesting Canadian mining
  • At least 28 extinctions prevented by conservation action in recent decades
  • Nordstrom officially bans fur and exotic animal skins
  • Marion conservation area renamed to honor Iowa Native American pioneer in women’s rights
  • 40 percent of world’s plants at risk of extinction
  • Oregon State researcher IDs 4 new species of wasp that lived 25 million years ago
  • New ‘forever chemicals’ contaminating the environment
  • Lawsuit filed to put Louisiana Black Bear back on endangered species list
  • New NY state law adds level of protection to endangered species
  • Brazil revokes mangroves protections, triggering alarms
  • Coral’s resilience to warming may depend on iron
  • Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact lost to human pressure
  • California bans rodenticide in a win for California wildlife
  • A quarter of all reptile species, many of them endangered, are sold online
  • New species of millipede discovered at Caw Caw
  • Toxins in plastic blamed for heath, environment hazards
  • Revival of endangered bird provides bit of good environmental news
  • Vietnam creates new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’
  • Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation/fire monitoring to military
  • Indonesia’s new intelligence hub wields data in the war on illegal fishing
  • World leaders endorse ‘Pledge for Nature’ to address planetary emergency
  • A Philippine stingless bee helps boost coconut yields and empower women
  • Archaelogists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to settle the Caribbean Islands
  • US emissions reductions slowed after US pulled out of Paris Accord
  • World leaders urged to ban all trade in wild animals and birds for eating to prevent pandemics
  • World leaders pledge to protect 30% of the planet by 2030
  • New study shows converting to electric vehicles alone won’t meet climate targets
  • Canada pledges to stem biodiversity loss and ensure pandemic recovery is ‘green’
  • Joe Biden to make almost every policy a climate change policy
  • Two new species of wetland plant discovered from Western Ghats
  • New species of cockroach-killing wasps discovered in 25-million-year-old amber
  • China fires back at US over environment, South China Sea
  • Mussel species in Virginia could be added to Endangered Species Act
  • Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia to Japan in world-first shipment
  • White House to reopen largest National Forest to development, rejecting environmental and cultural importance
  • In lead up to biodiversity summit, big commitments to nature
  • Plastic-eating enzyme ‘cocktail’ heralds new hope for plastic
  • Shark fin trafficking ring busted as trade ban comes into effect in Florida
  • Mass elephant die-off caused by cyanobacteria
  • Canada’s Liberal government to spend $10B on clean energy infrastructure to fuel pandemic economic recovery
  • REI Co-op achieves 14-year carbon neutrality commitment, announces ambitious new climate pattern
  • India makes Amazon pay for plastic pollution
  • Ray at Kagoshima aquarium revealed as new species
  • Feds to relax protections for red-cockaded woodpecker since 1970
  • New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all
  • World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report
  • World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds
  • Brazilian dry forests are chronically degraded even in non-deforested areas
  • Kenya earmarks $3.7 million to boost rhino protection
  • The massive ocean blob anomaly has our fingerprints all over it
  • A new mass extinction has been discovered, wiping out life 233 million years ago
  • 20 new species of fauna recorded on Pulua Ubin, including new type of spider
  • New beetle species named after Alexandria resident James Sherald
  • Sen. Udall introduces ‘Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act’
  • Mining companies stand to win from Peru-China FTA that neglects environment
  • Ikea faces Swiss complaint over wood believed to have been illegally logged
  • Researchers show conscious processes in birds’ brains for the first time
  • 30 retired elephants will live out their days at Nassau County wildlife refuge
  • Koala may be given endangered listing as numbers plummet
  • US House passes sweeping clean energy bill
  • Emails show how pesticide lobby influenced US position in health talks
  • Relocated Isle Royale wolves form groups, reduce moose herd
  • Seismic blasting efforts halted in Atlantic Ocean
  • Around 2500 new species to arrive in Europe by 2050 causing damage to biodiversity
  • 3 new damselflies discovered in Western Ghats
  • Charleston naturalist gets to name new millipede species after discovery at Caw Caw center
  • AZA celebrates funding for endangered species and announces 2020 Honors and Awards
  • SELC flags Endangered Species Act violation in EPA rule harming clean water
  • Graeme Worboys passes away
  • Climate change is transforming how plants grow
  • Study shows warming ocean, vicious carbon cycle
  • Antarctic and high seas protection can save half the planet
  • A machine-learning assist to predicting hurricane intensity
  • NASA monitors Carbon Monoxide from California Wildfires
  • Comet discovered to have its own Northern Lights
  • School-Bus sized asteroid to safely zoom past earth
  • NASA’s new Mars rover will use x-ray to hunt fossils
  • New sea level satellite arrives at California launch site
  • Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025
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New Species and People ~ September 2020

9/26/2020

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New Species
  • New species of fairy shrimp found in world’s hottest desert
  • Despite frog-killing disease, researchers discover new frog species
  • Scientists identify new species of crystal-encrusted truffle, thanks to bonobos
  • PhD student conducts critical research work establishing new Bonnethead Shark species from home
  • New species of burrowing dinosaur found perfectly preserved in ‘Cretaceous Pompeii’
  • Discovery of new species of human with hobbit skull
  • Russian scientists discovered a new species of bats on Kunashir
  • A new species of spider
  • A new species of milkweed subfamily found in Yunnan
  • New species of brachiopod discovered in ISU Prof Summer Project
  • New species of Alligator Lizard discovered in Mexico
  • Astronomers discover potential sign of life excessive in Venus’s environment
  • Lost frogs rediscovered with environmental DNA
  • New species of gecko discovered in Ganjam
  • A new evergreen species of Rhamnaceae found in Guangxi
  • Thousands of species recorded in a speck of soil
  • Colombia’s Humboldt Institute discovers new species in former FARC camp
  • New fossil ape is discovered in India
  • Peru – San Marcos University biologists discover new species of Amazon fish
  • A new species of blind, underground ant from Goa
  • Hutchins science teacher Keith Martin-Smith may have discovered new spider species
  • New species of clam shrimp discovered in pond at UVI’s golf course
  • New wildflower species found, native to Pennsylvania
  • Neglected for over a century, Black Sea Spider Crab redescribed
  • Madagascar giant frog is a new species, but also a deep-fried delicacy
  • New venomous snake species names after Metallica’s James Hetfield
  • New moth species found, another rediscovered after 100 years in Arunachal
  • Scientists discover exposed bacteria can survive in space for years
  • New species of freshwater crustacea found in the hottest place on Earth
 
 
People
  • Great Thunberg will donate €150,000 to support people on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Africa
  • Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge
  • Judge Removes acting director of Bureau of Land Management for Serving Unlawfully
  • Jen Guyton and Dr. Gladys win the American Society of Mammalogist’s Aldo Leopold Prize
  • 6 young Portuguese activists area suing European Countries over climate change
  • Mexican Environment Minister resigns after critique
  • Oregon Zoo leader, Dr. Don Moore, retires
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Conservation News ~ 25 September 2020

9/25/2020

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  • Survival of wildlife reserves under threat in Namibia
  • The Pantanal is 22% burnt
  • BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred
  • TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader
  • New species of fairy shrimp found in world’s hottest desert
  • Legislation will provide environmental justice to protect communities from toxics
  • Ecologists confirm Alan Turing's theory for Australian fairy circles
  • Australia whales: 90 dead in mass stranding off Tasmania
  • Philippine community goes to court to stop coal plant in ecological haven
  • China, world’s biggest polluter, vows to go carbon neutral by 2050
  • The Brown Bat is one step closer to becoming DCs official mammal
  • China, more than other states, looks to future Arctic sea route
  • Intelligence helps Namibia turn tide against rhino poachers
  • Despite frog-killing disease, researchers discover new frog species
  • Scientists identify new species of crystal-encrusted truffle, thanks to bonobos
  • Australians suffer $2 billion health bill from summer bushfire smoke
  • Few countries living up to COVID ‘green recovery’ pledges
  • New tool alerts ships when whales are near
  • Overfished Congo waters put endangered sharks at risk
  • Flip flops and fishing gear pile up at Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Past illegal activity dogs Chines fleet that fished squid near Galapagos
  • Great Thunberg will donate €150,000 to support people on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Africa
  • China in pointed message to US, tightens its climate targets
  • Ecuador’s highest court will allow communities to vote on mining projects
  • California plans to ban sales of gas-powered cars in 15 years
  • EPA questions science linking pesticide to brain damage in children
  • First Nations restore ancient clam gardens
  • Mussel-bola could be spreading
  • IUCN, FAO and WWF Pakistan join hands with Ministry of Climate Change to monitor the largest afforestation programme in Pakistan
  • More than 560 companies back global ‘Call to Action’ for nature
  • Poland, the world’s third largest fur producer, votes to ban fur farming
  • Department of Agriculture awarded federal grant to develop conservation plan for endangered
  • Joshua Trees given temporary endangered species protections
  • Richest 1%’s emissions twice that of poorest 50%
  • Environmentalists plan lawsuit challenging Newsom over oil and gas drilling permits
  • Human footprints found in Saudi Arabia may be 120,000 years old
  • Wilderness the size of Mexico lost worldwide in just 13 years
  • Rare pink dolphin are back in Hong Kong as lockdown halts ferry traffic
  • Feds reaffirm western yellow-billed cuckoo’s threatened species status
  • Biodiversity hypothesis called into question
  • Arctic ice melt doesn’t boost sea levels
  • PhD student conducts critical research work establishing new Bonnethead Shark species from home
  • New species of burrowing dinosaur found perfectly preserved in ‘Cretaceous Pompeii’
  • Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation
  • Australian scientists say suppression of environment research is getting worse
  • Feds propose listing two Missouri crayfish species as ‘threatened’ under Endangered Species Act
  • Rescued wild pangolin gives birth to healthy pup
  • Two new Javan rhino calves are spotted in the species’ last holdout
  • Indonesia’s mining pits claim more lives
  • Hawaiian reefs lost almost half their fish to pollution and fishing
  • Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat
  • White House pushed EPA for fewer methane checks
  • New Jersey law seeks to stem pollution in minority areas
  • Discovery of new species of human with hobbit skull
  • Environmental gains during pandemic prove short-lived
  • Delmarva fox squirrels, once an endangered species, to be released in Dagsboro
  • Chinese startup launching space mining robot in November
  • Oceanbird cargo ship relies on wind to transport autos
  • Hair from ghostly bears reveals new genetic secrets
  • Five states have filed climate change lawsuits, seeking damages from big oil and gas
  • Feds’ preferred highway route would impact lands it spent millions acquiring for conservation
  • New gecko species discovered in Bicol
  • Shedd Aquarium welcomes 24 new endangered turtle hatchlings
  • Imperiled beetle loses some protections
  • Colorado Agency caves to US Forest Service, Oks more bulldozing of roadless forest
  • More than 17,000 rare Nevada wildflowers destroyed
  • BC’s old-growth forest announcement won’t actually slow down logging
  • Park Service finalized disastrous Point Reyes plan to kill Native Wildlife, prioritize commercial livestock
  • Russian scientists discovered a new species of bats on Kunashir
  • Legislation introduced to modernize Endangered Species Act
  • Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge
  • Fires turn sage brush habitat in Washington into a scorched oblivion
  • In Peru, self-reporting of oil spills by companies leaves an unknown toll
  • CO2 from California fires dwarf state’s fossil fuel emissions
  • Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID
  • Patagonia says its new ‘vote the assholes out’ clothing tag is a call to action on climate change
  • Gas companies are abandoning wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
  • Court temporarily pauses EPA methane emissions rollback
  • Greenville Zoo Education team wins Pinnacle Award
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