Best of our wild blogs: 1 Aug 08

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New Exhibits at the RMBR Fauna of China (1 Aug)and Singapore’s Natural Heritage - Cyrene Reef (12 Aug)on the Raffles Museum News blog Dredgi...

What about the water quality?

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Trash left by visitors and waste from ships mustsurely cause pollution Letter from John Lucas, Today Online 1 Aug 08; WITH regard to the ar...

Singapore's population up almost 200,000 between 2006 and 2007

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Hasnita A Majid, Channel NewsAsia 31 Jul 08; SINGAPORE : Singapore's population rose by almost 200,000 between 2006 and 2007. As of las...

NTUC FairPrice launches first organic produce certification programme

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Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia 31 Jul 08; SINGAPORE : Supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice has launched a certification programme that guarante...

New case of chikungunya fever detected near Holland Road

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Hasnita Majid, Channel NewsAsia 31 Jul 08; SINGAPORE: There has been a new local case of chikungunya fever. This time, the victim is a 60-y...

"Cancún’s White Sands Wouldn’t Exist Without Coral"

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Interview with Marine Scientist Roberto Iglesias-Prieto Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, IPS News 31 Jul 08; FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, U.S., Jul 31...

Penang hit by haze from open burning in Sumatra

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Straits Times 1 Aug 08; GEORGETOWN - PENANG was overcome by haze yesterday, with three areas experiencing poor visibility of between 2km an...

Marine-Life Hot Spots Shift Over Time, Study Says

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Anne Minard, National Geographic News 31 Jul 08; Earth's richest concentrations of marine life have shifted over time, cropping up wher...

Australian dolphin find may make marine history

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The Australian 1 Aug 08; A DIMINUTIVE dolphin called "Snubby" may make history in marine science if DNA samples taken this week f...

Congo Basin passes 1 million ha milestone in swing to sustainable forestry

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WWF website 31 Jul 2008 Yaoundé, Cameroon - WWF today announced that more than one million hectares of Congo Basin forests have achieved ce...

Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?

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EurekAlert 31 Jul 08; African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trad...

Nepal's 'restaurant' for vultures

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Charles Haviland, BBC News 31 Jul 08; As the early morning mist lifts on the farmlands at the edge of the jungle, Yam Bahadur Nepali embark...