In Indonesia, a suspect is charged in a huge pangolin trafficking case and two other suspects are being sought. https://buff.ly/p9XrNUv

 

Trump moved to significantly weaken ESA by making it much easier to destroy habitats or even nests of endangered species without such actions being considered "harm" under the law. https://buff.ly/mzvweAT

 

Protesters opposed to new tour arrangements at Kalaupapa NHP briefly blocked an NPS-led tour group from proceeding. https://buff.ly/giwRTiV

 

Seabed mining could threaten whole groups of rare mollusks that live near deep-sea vents, IUCN reports. https://buff.ly/RKBkXJ7

 

Last year Trump gutted the office that produces the official US National Climate Change Assessment. Now he's restarting it — but putting a climate denier in charge. https://buff.ly/rn0iIVj

 

The state of Ohio has received over $300M in royalties by allowing fracking under state parks and wildlife areas. https://buff.ly/xswDrNm'

 

A new NGO report finds that none of UK's MPAs that are focused on cetacean conservation ban bottom trawling. https://buff.ly/dnVsrx3

 

In observance of US 250th anniversary, the World Monuments Fund has published a list of 10 endangered historic sites that it has collectively dubbed "Irreplaceable America." https://buff.ly/p4wvcUN
 

California's two senators (both Democrats) are calling on DOI to restore the reservation system at Yosemite NP, decrying the "pure chaos" in the park so far this spring and early summer. https://buff.ly/c4H8SMl

An appeals court has reversed a lower court order that halted Trump's censorship campaign in NPs, clearing the way for it to resume. https://buff.ly/TC6E99z

The current heat wave in parts of Europe is the worst ever recorded, and would not be possible without the effects of climate change, scientists with World Weather Attribution said. https://buff.ly/BBmlcvK

Reversing decades of best practice, Trump is going back to full suppression of all wildfires, no matter the origin or potential benefits. https://buff.ly/g8EuzyD