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TOP 15 SPECIES DISCOVERIES FROM 2020 (PHOTOS) In this well-trodden world, the discovery of a species new to science is an exciting event, a glimmer of the uncharted riches of biodiversity still hidden around the globe. “Every year, as INDONESIA’S NET-ZERO EMISSIONS GOAL NOT AMBITIOUS ENOUGH Indonesia, one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters, has put forward a plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070. The government says it’s the most ambitious and realistic target GLOBAL FOREST LOSS INCREASED IN 2020 The planet lost an area of tree cover larger than the United Kingdom in 2020, including more than 4.2 million hectares of primary tropical forests, according to data released today by the SATELLITES KEEP WATCH OVER GLOBAL REEF HEALTH IN A WORLD FIRST While coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific region have been bleaching in response to rising sea temperatures, the reefs around

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VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS, LOCAL GROUPS DEPLORED AMID Colombians have taken to the streets in cities across the country over the past 24 days in protest against proposed tax reform, corruption, rising poverty, growing inequality, and unemployment. INDONESIA ENDS TIMBER LEGALITY RULE, STOKING FEARS OF Indonesia’s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. INVASIVE PLANTS: WHAT ARE INVASIVE PLANTS? WHERE DO THEY India's environmental science and conservation news. When do plants get invasive? Plants that do not occur naturally in a region but proliferate in the area they have been introduced into, and cause several negative impacts (such as affecting native biodiversity, causing economic losses and harming human health) in these new habitats, are called invasive plants. MONGABAY - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION NEWSRAINFORESTSOCEANSFOR KIDS Environmental science and conservation news. Despite a 2019 self-imposed ban, Facebook continues linking wildlife traffickers with buyers around the globe, while the U.S. government has so far done little to regulate trade facilitated by Facebook and other social

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PODCAST: CAN BIDEN'S 30X30 PLAN PUT U.S. ON A POSITIVE 30. The administration of US President Joe Biden released a report called “America The Beautiful” last month that laid out a vision for conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030 WITH FIRE CONTAINED, SRI LANKA FACES PLASTIC PELLET With fire contained, Sri Lanka faces plastic pellet problem from stricken ship. Sri Lanka faces an uphill task to clean up countless plastic pellets that have washed up on its beaches from a ‘DARK’ SHIPS OFF ARGENTINA RING ALARMS OVER POSSIBLE This week, the conservation NGO Oceana published a report that revealed that 800 foreign vessels racked up a combined 900,000 hours of apparent fishing within 20 nautical miles (37 km) of MONGABAY - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION NEWSRAINFORESTSOCEANSFOR KIDS Environmental science and conservation news. Despite a 2019 self-imposed ban, Facebook continues linking wildlife traffickers with buyers around the globe, while the U.S. government has so far done little to regulate trade facilitated by Facebook and other social

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PODCAST: CAN BIDEN'S 30X30 PLAN PUT U.S. ON A POSITIVE 30. The administration of US President Joe Biden released a report called “America The Beautiful” last month that laid out a vision for conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030 WITH FIRE CONTAINED, SRI LANKA FACES PLASTIC PELLET With fire contained, Sri Lanka faces plastic pellet problem from stricken ship. Sri Lanka faces an uphill task to clean up countless plastic pellets that have washed up on its beaches from a ‘DARK’ SHIPS OFF ARGENTINA RING ALARMS OVER POSSIBLE This week, the conservation NGO Oceana published a report that revealed that 800 foreign vessels racked up a combined 900,000 hours of apparent fishing within 20 nautical miles (37 km) of KARIPUNA PEOPLE SUE BRAZIL GOVERNMENT FOR ALLEGED Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs. Leaders of the Karipuna Indigenous group in Brazil are suing the government for what they say is complicity in the INDONESIA SAYS NO NEW COAL PLANTS FROM 2023 (AFTER THESEE MORE ON

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additional forest.

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additional forest.

ON THE MONGOLIAN STEPPE, CONSERVATION SCIENCE MEETS The Mongolian steppe is a hotspot, where the dialogue between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge is starting to take shape. Banner image: ‘DARK’ SHIPS OFF ARGENTINA RING ALARMS OVER POSSIBLE This week, the conservation NGO Oceana published a report that revealed that 800 foreign vessels racked up a combined 900,000 hours of apparent fishing within 20 nautical miles (37 km) of FOR AFRICA’S GREAT APES, A POST-PANDEMIC FUTURE LOOKS 1 day ago · On Jan. 11 this year, something happened that primatologists had both feared and expected: two western lowland gorillas at San Diego Zoo Safari Park INDONESIA SAYS NO NEW COAL PLANTS FROM 2023 (AFTER THE JAKARTA — Indonesia says it will stop building new coal-fired power plants after 2023 to meet its carbon-neutral goals — but the more than 100 plants to be built by then will still be churning WORLD’S RICHEST TIN MINE POLLUTES RIVERS SERVING AMAZON Waste from the world’s richest tin mine has since March leaked into rivers flowing through an Indigenous reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, reportedly contaminating the water and killing fish and NEW BILL SEEKS TO END HONG KONG’S DAYS AS AN ILLEGAL In 2019, Hong Kong customs authorities inspected a cargo ship bound for Vietnam. Hidden beneath slabs of frozen meat were 8.3 metric tons of illegal scales from about 13,800 pangolins, and NGOS BACK MALDIVES’ AMBITIOUS PLAN TO SAVE INDIAN OCEAN Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), one of the most profitable fisheries in the world, is just a few years away from collapse. A meeting that began June 7 will be crucial in deciding CHINESE BANKS POURING BILLIONS INTO DEFORESTATION-LINKED 1 day ago · Chinese banks and investors funneled billions of dollars into global agribusinesses driving deforestation in the past seven years, according to new analysis published by eco-watchdog Global POACHING AND THE PROBLEM WITH CONSERVATION IN AFRICA Poaching and the problem with conservation in Africa (commentary) by Richard Fynn and Oluwatoyin Kolawole on 3 March 2020. Poaching is a complex topic that cannot be BRAZIL ‘ADOPT-A-PARK’ PROGRAM MAY NEGATIVELY IMPACT 1 day ago · Brazil has launched an ambitious “Adopt-a-Park” program, inviting local and transnational companies to provide goods and services and help manage 132 conservation units of all types in

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A forest in a city: Maintaining Chandigarh’s green cover in the face of urbanisation. by Kunal Sharma, Swayam Chowdhary 27 May 2021. With Chandigarh's growing reputation as nature’s paradise, every aspect of this man-made creation, originally spread over 47 blocks of 246 acres each, vindicates the visionary thinking of the early planners.. IMPACT OF DEFORESTATION July 22, 2012. The loss of trees, which anchor the soil with their roots, causes widespread erosion throughout the tropics. Only a minority of areas have good soils, which after clearing are quickly washed away by the heavy rains. Thus crop yields decline and the people must spend income to import foreign fertilizers or clear

additional forest.

MONGABAY - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION NEWSRAINFORESTSOCEANSFOR KIDS Environmental science and conservation news. Nature-based solutions to tackle the climate crisis, specifically through the global carbon market, are attracting major public and private investment. WITH FIRE CONTAINED, SRI LANKA FACES PLASTIC PELLET With fire contained, Sri Lanka faces plastic pellet problem from stricken ship. Sri Lanka faces an uphill task to clean up countless plastic pellets that have washed up on its beaches from a ON THE MONGOLIAN STEPPE, CONSERVATION SCIENCE MEETS The Mongolian steppe is a hotspot, where the dialogue between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge is starting to take shape. Banner image: KARIPUNA PEOPLE SUE BRAZIL GOVERNMENT FOR ALLEGED Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs. Leaders of the Karipuna Indigenous group in Brazil are suing the government for what they say is complicity in the GLOBAL FOREST LOSS INCREASED IN 2020 Global forest loss increased in 2020. The planet lost an area of tree cover larger than the United Kingdom in 2020, including more than 4.2 million hectares of primary tropical forests, according GAS FIELDS AND JIHAD: MOZAMBIQUE’S CABO DELGADO BECOMES A Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone. In the early 2010s, the fossil fuel industry discovered Africa’s largest natural gas deposits off the remote CHINESE BOAT THAT DUMPED INDONESIAN CREWS AT SEA WAS ALSO China’s Dalian Ocean Fishing Co. Ltd. has been under scrutiny after reports in early May linked four of its high-seas boats — Long Xing 629, Long Xing 802, Long Xing 605 and Tian Yu 08 — to INDONESIA SAYS NO NEW COAL PLANTS FROM 2023 (AFTER THESEE MORE ON

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A forest in a city: Maintaining Chandigarh’s green cover in the face of urbanisation. by Kunal Sharma, Swayam Chowdhary 27 May 2021. With Chandigarh's growing reputation as nature’s paradise, every aspect of this man-made creation, originally spread over 47 blocks of 246 acres each, vindicates the visionary thinking of the early planners.. IMPACT OF DEFORESTATION July 22, 2012. The loss of trees, which anchor the soil with their roots, causes widespread erosion throughout the tropics. Only a minority of areas have good soils, which after clearing are quickly washed away by the heavy rains. Thus crop yields decline and the people must spend income to import foreign fertilizers or clear

additional forest.

ON THE MONGOLIAN STEPPE, CONSERVATION SCIENCE MEETS The Mongolian steppe is a hotspot, where the dialogue between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge is starting to take shape. Banner image: ‘DARK’ SHIPS OFF ARGENTINA RING ALARMS OVER POSSIBLE This week, the conservation NGO Oceana published a report that revealed that 800 foreign vessels racked up a combined 900,000 hours of apparent fishing within 20 nautical miles (37 km) of FOR AFRICA’S GREAT APES, A POST-PANDEMIC FUTURE LOOKS 23 hours ago · On Jan. 11 this year, something happened that primatologists had both feared and expected: two western lowland gorillas at San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive for INDONESIA SAYS NO NEW COAL PLANTS FROM 2023 (AFTER THE JAKARTA — Indonesia says it will stop building new coal-fired power plants after 2023 to meet its carbon-neutral goals — but the more than 100 plants to be built by then will still be churning WORLD’S RICHEST TIN MINE POLLUTES RIVERS SERVING AMAZON Waste from the world’s richest tin mine has since March leaked into rivers flowing through an Indigenous reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, reportedly contaminating the water and killing fish and NEW BILL SEEKS TO END HONG KONG’S DAYS AS AN ILLEGAL In 2019, Hong Kong customs authorities inspected a cargo ship bound for Vietnam. Hidden beneath slabs of frozen meat were 8.3 metric tons of illegal scales from about 13,800 pangolins, and NGOS BACK MALDIVES’ AMBITIOUS PLAN TO SAVE INDIAN OCEAN 1 day ago · Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), one of the most profitable fisheries in the world, is just a few years away from collapse. A meeting that began June 7 will be crucial in deciding CHINESE BANKS POURING BILLIONS INTO DEFORESTATION-LINKED 23 hours ago · Chinese banks and investors funneled billions of dollars into global agribusinesses driving deforestation in the past seven years, according to new analysis published by eco-watchdog

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