South Africa lifts ban on elephant culling

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Fran Blandy, Yahoo News 29 Apr 08; South Africa's 13-year moratorium on elephant culling was set to be lifted on Thursday to combat a s...

World's biggest squid reveals 'beach ball' eyes

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Yahoo News 30 Apr 08; The largest squid ever caught began to reveal its secrets Wednesday, including eyes the size of beach balls that one ...

Best of our wild blogs: 30 Apr 08

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New Star tentatively identified as Pentaceraster mammillatus update on the nature scouter blog and why some people call it the Black Evil ...

Commute by sea? It's a ferry tale

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Letter from Ivan Kwan Wei Ming, Straits Times Forum 30 Apr 08; I REFER to Mr Clinton Lim Eng Hiong's letter, ' Tired of jammed road...

UK tidal barrier idea angers wildlife groups

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James Randerson, The Guardian 29 Apr 08; An entrepreneur has launched a plan to protect large swaths of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincoln...

Animals saved my life

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Liew Hanqing, The New Paper 30 Apr 08; EVERY morning, 17-year-old Lim Weiting wakes up to 50 small animals waiting to be fed. Among them ar...

Focus on saving mature trees first

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Letter from Teo Lian Hong, Straits Times Forum 30 Apr 08; FOR the past few months, The Straits Times has reported initiatives on the planti...

Johor cracks down on spread of chikungunya

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Straits Times 30 Apr 08; MUAR - ALL village committee leaders in Johor have been urged to carry out campaigns to destroy mosquito-breeding ...

Giant River Stingrays Found Near Thai City

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Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic News 29 Apr 08; This is the sixth story in a continuing series on the Megafishes Project. Join National...

Rare Bolivian river dolphin is new species

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Paul Eccleston, The Telegraph 29 Apr 08; A rare river dolphin has been officially classified as a new species. The Bolivian river dolphin h...

Legless lizard, other new species discovered in Brazil

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Yahoo News 30 Apr 08; Scientists discovered legless lizard, a dwarf woodpecker and another 12 suspected new species in Brazil's fast-di...

Probe ordered into spurt in rhino poaching in Assam

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Thaindian.com 29 Apr 08; Guwahati, April 29 (IANS) The Assam government ordered a high-level probe Tuesday, a day after organized poacher g...