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Latest top headlines • 3 December 2025
DOI is ordering NP gift shops to flag any sales items that don't comport with Trump orders to sanitize history and promote only positive images of America. https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/12/interior-memo-orders-nps-staff-flag-gift-shop-items-dei-references
A Latino environmental group is sharply criticizing Trump's recently announced hikes in US NP entrance fees for non-residents. https://buff.ly/UWYKm7P
The South Sierra Miwuk Nation is getting almost 900 acres of ancestral land back. The tract is adjacent to Yosemite NP. https://buff.ly/Nq9nwoJ
Africa's tropical forests have flipped from being a net carbon storer to a carbon emitter — an alarming switch that shows how quickly deforestation is now occurring there. https://buff.ly/j1SLzE8
A wilderness group is campaigning against replanting sequoias in Sequoia-Kings Canyon NPs as part of the recovery from the wildfires a couple of years ago. The group says natural regeneration is already doing the trick. https://buff.ly/UiJUCdD
Wildlife officials confirmed that Kemp's ridley sea turtles, one of the most endangered of the seven kinds of sea turtles, are nesting for the first time on a barrier island off the Mississippi coast in the Gulf of Mexico. https://buff.ly/dDBWZqF
Trump raised entrance fees sharply for foreign visitors, and the new America the Beautiful passes feature his likeness on them, next to George Washington's. https://buff.ly/mfgBH65
In late September, DOI summarily canceled a number of contracts with nonprofits who were working on ecological restoration and other projects on public lands. https://buff.ly/qGFXSpC
The latest in a string of falling deaths from people who climbed the remnants of an industrial plant has pitted the parents of the victim against preservationists who insist on maintaining the key elements of Seattle's Gas Works Park. https://buff.ly/eRJJHc7
In Cornwall, England, a man convicted of spreading waste material over part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest in an attempt to "landscape" the area will have to undo the damage and restore the SSSI's habitats. https://buff.ly/MPZC0ms
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