Best of our wild blogs: 23 Aug 08

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Life and Death at Chek Jawa for those who missed Kok Sheng's talk, here's the video clip uploaded by Andy on his sgbeachbum blog End...

Scuba Divers are Willing to Pay More to See Healthy Corals, Sharks and Sea Turtles

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New Survey Finds Economic Incentive for Protecting Ocean Resources Oceana website 21 Aug 08; Washington, D.C. -- Oceana released the result...

What IRs have to do with our food sources

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Ong Dai Lin, Today Online 23 Aug 08; NOW even when an outbreak of, say, food and mouth disease happens in Brazil, the Agri-Food & Veter...

FairPrice widens organic choices

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Supermart's house-brand organic products include more Asian varieties of veggies Huang Lijie, Straits Times 23 Aug 08; Buying and eatin...

Dr Future: Advice for Singapore

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Advice from futurist on Singapore baby crisis: Foreigners are the future Karen Wong, The New Paper 23 Aug 08; Dr Canton also thinks that Si...

Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease: New outbreak looming here

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Cases last week just 12 short of epidemic level; numbers likely to rise Lee Hui Chieh & Ang Yiying, Straits Times 23 Aug 08; SINGAPORE ...

Nine polar bears observed on risky open ocean swims

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Dan Joling, Associated Press Yahoo News 21 Aug 08; Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska's northw...

Australian officials euthanize lost baby whale

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Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press Yahoo News 22 Aug 08; The baby humpback whale was starving, injured and hours from death. So despite ang...

Japan ends whale hunt with 211 catches

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Yahoo News 23 Aug 08; Japanese whaling ships will start arriving back back home Saturday after catching 211 whales during their three-month...

Whaling under fire as Norway catches only 50% of its quota

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Gwladys Fouché, guardian.co.uk 22 Aug 08; Norway will not catch enough whales to meet its quota this year, in what environmentalists are cl...

Namibia to issue permits to shoot endangered bull elephants

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Paul Eccleston, The Telegraph 22 Aug 08; A decision to allow the trophy-hunting of endangered elephants in Namibia has angered conservation...

Wasted food draining the world of water, experts say

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Nina Larson, Yahoo News 22 Aug 08; As much as half the water used to grow food worldwide is lost due to waste, experts said at a Stockholm ...