Best of our wild blogs: 30 Aug 08

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Nature Society: The struggle for Singapore’s nature areas on the Bird Ecology Study Group blog and habitatnews blog and wild shores of sin...

Shark concerns: One step forward, two steps back?

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Letter from Mariann Maes, Today Online 30 Aug 08; I REFER to the report “Plea to set them free” (Aug 29). The upcoming Resorts World at Se...

Nature Society chief aims to grow member numbers

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Shobana Kesava, Straits Times 30 Aug 08; IF MEMBERS of the Nature Society of Singapore (NSS) were classified like the plants and animals th...

40 new sponge records for Singapore

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A spongy kind of love Expert finds 40 new species to add to rich haul in local waters Shobana Kesava, Straits Times 30 Aug 08; SINGAPORE...

The state of Singapore beaches: water quality issues

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Water quality at all recreational beacheshas not got worse Reply from S Satish Appoo, Director, Environmental Health Department Today Online...

First batch of 500 artificial reefs deployed in waters off Pulau Redang

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Sean Augustin, New Straits Times 29 Aug 08; KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government 'fastened' the first batch of the Reefscape, a b...

Dive tourism threatens Red Sea coral reefs according to new scientific study

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Evan T. Allard, CDNN - CYBER DIVER News Network 27 Aug 08; DAHAB, Egypt (27 Aug 2008) — Dive tourism is a primary threat to coral reefs acc...

Economics is not a value-free science

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Bjorn Lomborg reduces everything to numbers. But by putting a price on the priceless, we risk losing it Oliver Tickell, guardian.co.uk 29 A...

UK Bat weekend takes flight

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Paul Eccleston, The Telegraph 29 Aug 08; Thousands of people will be taking part in events aimed at celebrating one of our most misundersto...

Raft of junk: Hawaii voyage focuses on ocean debris

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Junk floats Raft: Hawaii voyage focuses on ocean debris Nalea J. Ko, Star Bulletin 28 Aug 08; Joel Paschal and Marcus Eriksen nearly encoun...

WMO expects 'normal' ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008

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Yahoo News 29 Aug 08; The World Meteorological Organisation said Friday it expects the ozone hole over Antarctica to be "normal" ...

Simple fertilizer technique promises to feed Africa's hungry

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Jean-Louis Santini, Yahoo News 29 Aug 08; A simple and cheap technique of applying fertilizer in small doses at the right time can double w...