Showing posts with label marine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marine. Show all posts

Malaysia, Johor: Land reclamation may be behind mass fish deaths

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VENESA DEVI The Star 7 Sep 19; What went wrong?: Some of the dead fish found along Pantai Lido. JOHOR BARU: Land reclamation along Pant...

Malaysia: Two men nabbed, over 600 turtle eggs seized

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Goh Pei Pei New Straits Times 8 Sep 19; KUCHING: The Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) enforcement team nabbed two men for selling sea t...

Malaysia: Sharks and rays still in demand in Sabah for their meat

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Olivia Miwil New Straits Times 8 Sep 19; KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is keen to protect sharks and rays in the state’s waters but the problem is...

Philippines: Whale shark population increases - WWF

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Business Mirror 9 Sep 19; More than 100 new ‘butanding’ (whale shark), including juveniles, spotted in Donsol, the highest number in seve...

Stranded whales: Numbers on the rise around UK shores

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Helen Briggs BBC News 6 Sep 19; The number of whales and dolphins washing up around the UK coastline has risen, according to new figures....

Land reclamation projects to combat climate change can be funded from past reserves: Lawrence Wong

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NG JUN SEN Today Online 3 Sep 19; SINGAPORE — To finance the fight against climate change, smaller-scale infrastructure such as flood bar...

Malaysia: Divers remove ghost nets, rescue bamboo shark off Malohom bay

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Olivia Miwil New Straits Times 2 Sep 19; KOTA KINABALU: The threat posed by ‘ghost nets’ — fishing nets discarded or lost in the sea — to...

Indonesia: Some 70 percent damage caused to South Kalimantan's mangrove forest

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Antara 31 Aug 19; Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan (ANTARA) - Some 70 percent of the 116,824 hectares of mangrove forest in South Kalimantan...

Shovelnose rays, served as ‘shark head’ in Singapore eateries, now critically endangered

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NABILAH AWANG Today Online 30 Aug 19; SINGAPORE — Food lovers who enjoy a delicacy called “shark head” in Singapore restaurants may want ...

Malaysia: Protected marine parks no sanctuary for endangered turtles

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Avila Geraldine New Straits Times 29 Aug 19; KOTA KINABALU: Despite efforts to save turtles, the endangered species are still under threa...

Great Barrier Reef outlook very poor, Australia says

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BBC 30 Aug 19; The Great Barrier Reef's outlook has been officially downgraded from poor to very poor due to climate change. Rising...

Malaysia: 'Malaysians deserve to know why we voted against proposal to protect sharks, rays'

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Olivia Miwil New Straits Times 27 Aug 19; KOTA KINABALU: It was reported yesterday that Malaysia was among the 40 countries that opposed ...

Indonesia: Jokowi names Penajam Paser Utara as new capital city site

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Sharks and rays to be given new international protections

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BBC 25 Aug 19; Countries have agreed to strengthen protections for 18 threatened species of sharks and rays, including those hunted for t...

Thailand: Second dugong calf washed ashore dies

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Tan Hui Yee Straits Times 23 Aug 19; BANGKOK - An orphaned dugong under the care of Thai veterinarians died on Thursday (Aug 22), less th...

150 hatchlings born last year at Singapore's only turtle hatchery: NParks

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About 150 baby turtles were hatched last year at Singapore's first and only hatchery for these marine creatures, the National Parks Boar...

‘Calamity may come’ if Singapore doesn’t take care of its coastlines now: Masagos Zulkifli

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The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources also shared more on the citizens’ workgroup, saying one problem it will look at is how ...

Engineering solutions to tackle rising sea levels important but more research vital: Experts

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Matthew Mohan Channel NewsAsia 19 Aug 19; SINGAPORE: Experts on Monday (Aug 19) welcomed the possibility of implementing engineering solu...

NDR 2019: It could cost S$100 billion or more to protect Singapore against rising sea levels, PM Lee says

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Matthew Mohan Channel NewsAsia 18 Aug 19; SINGAPORE: Tackling the “50 to 100-year problem” of rising sea levels could cost Singapore arou...

NDR 2019: Climate change one of the 'gravest challenges facing mankind', impact on Singapore to worsen, says PM Lee

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Matthew Mohan Channel NewsAsia 18 Aug 19; SINGAPORE: Climate change is one of the gravest challenges the human race faces and Singapore i...