Best of our wild blogs: 1 Jan 08

Are there really continents of floating garbage?
Unfortunately, there are. "It was just filled with things like furniture, fridges, plastic containers, cigarette lighters, plastic bottles, light globes, televisions and fishing nets"; "Plastic accounts for the deaths of more than a million seabirds and more than 100,000 marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and seals every year" More on the daily galaxy blog

Singapore among the top countries viewing Story of Stuff
"The 99 countries with the highest viewership in order of number of viewers is: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Bulgaria, India, Netherlands, France, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Singapore" on the story of stuff blog

Toxic Tunes
dangerous iPods? on the story of stuff blog

Malayan Plum Judy
January butterfly of the month on the butterflies of singapore blog

Arrival of the Jambu Fruit Dove
a stunning visitor on the bird ecology blog

More coral ids from Semakau
on the tidechaser blog

Moments from Pasir Ris
more about this mangrovy park on the wonderful creations blog