Best of our wild blogs: 22 Jul 08

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Cyrene walk with URA on the wildfilms blog Beautiful Cyrene Another trip on the wonderful creations blog Reef Survey at Sisters Islands with...

$5.5m 'lost' to save durian tree

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That's the cost of a bungalow which developer must forgo to retain tree in present spot Desmond Ng, The New Paper 22 Jul 08; THIS is on...

Singapore on the right track with renewable energy

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Letter to the Editor, Business Times 22 Jul 08; I REFER to the article: 'Subsidies the thorny issue for a sustainable renewable energy ...

Act now to save Malaysian reefs

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The New Straits Times, Asia One 22 Jul 08; Perhentian Island in Terengganu is in danger of losing its marine and coral life in 10 years tim...

More than half Philippine fauna nearly extinct: official

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Yahoo News 21 Jul 08; More than half the birds, amphibians and mammals found only in the Philippines are either threatened or nearly extinc...

Mangroves Key To Saving Lives in the Philippines

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ScienceDaily 21 Jul 08; The replanting of mangroves on the coasts of the Philippines could help save many of the lives lost in the 20-30 ty...

Mexican Resorts Destroying Mangroves, Dooming Fisheries

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Eliza Barclay, National Geographic News 21 Jul 08; The loss of Mexico's coastal mangrove forests to development is threatening the coun...

Fisheries net 10,000 abalone in Australian poaching crackdown

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ABC 21 Jul 08; A crackdown on abalone poaching on the New South Wales south coast has netted 10,000 illegally caught abalone this year and ...

Mystery plague set to wipe out France's crop of baby oysters

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John Lichfield, The Independent 21 Jul 08; Baby oysters are dying in their millions along the French coast from Normandy to the Mediterrane...

Bat Bonanza: 100+ Species Found in 5 Acres of Jungle

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Kate Ravilious, National Geographic News 21 Jul 08; More than a hundred bat species have been found packed into about five acres (two hecta...

Logging threatens tribes in Peru's Amazon

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Carlos Tabja, Reuters 21 Jul 08; PUCALLPA, Peru (Reuters) - Delia Pacaya grew up in Peru's Amazon in a nomadic tribe that shunned conta...

Britain 'imports more illegal timber than any EU country'

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Paul Eccleston, The Telegraph 22 Jul 08; Britain imports more illegal timber than almost any other country in Europe, a new report claims. ...