Deforestation in Brazil's portion of the Amazon is the lowest it's been in 10 years, new figures say. https://buff.ly/gWVgla4

 

Working at night to avoid scrutiny, USNPS installed new Trump-approved panels at the President's House in Independence NHP. The panels soften Washington's role as a slave owner and replaced a panel titled "The Dirty Business of Slavery" with one celebrating the US. https://buff.ly/U0SGKCp

 

Burgum announced a new rule that would let three states manage grizzly bears without delisting them from ESA. It got mixed reviews. https://buff.ly/eusTwyC

 

In a Time magazine explainer on the Antiquities Act, a legal expert on the act says he thinks courts will overturn Trump's latest attempt to cut the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante NMons. https://buff.ly/M7337pK

 

Environmental groups are suing Trump over his decision last week to redefine the meaning of "harm" in the ESA so that protections would be greatly weakened. https://buff.ly/F7TXRsp

 

As he did in 2017, Trump again issued an order to slash the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante NMs — this time by some 90%, however. Tribes and conservationists will restart a pending lawsuit left over from the first time around, and a tangle of other suits are expected. https://buff.ly/5Ax5HcV

 

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