Best of our wild blogs: 18 Dec 08

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December: Last Chek Jawa Boardwalk Tour for 2008 on the Adventures with the Naked Hermit Crabs blog Siloso Surprises on the Lazy Lizard'...

Scientists predict severe bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef

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The Sydney Morning Herald 18 Dec 08; Northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef is likely to suffer severe coral bleaching this summer, the c...

Chilling developments in Dubai

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A refrigerated swimming pool and an artificially cooled beach - Dubai's latest excesses are enough to make conservationists weep. Leo Hi...

Cleaning up the Citarum River in West Java

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Trying to Stop Pollution From Killing a Lifeline Peter Gelling, New York Times 13 Dec 08; BEKASI, Indonesia — The Citarum River, which wind...

Malaysia's RM2.5b seafood export industry near collapse

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The Sun Daily 17 Dec 08; SEBERANG PERAI (Dec 17, 2008) : Malaysia's RM2.5 billion seafood export industry is on the verge of collapse w...

Time to revive Stray Cats Rehabilitation Scheme

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Letter to the Straits Times Forum 18 Dec 08; I AM writing to urge the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority's (AVA) Centre for Animal Welf...

US proposes protecting 7 penguin species

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Dina Cappiello, Associated Yahoo News 18 Dec 08; WASHINGTON – Seven penguin species have reason to have happy feet: The Bush administration...

Protected habitat proposed for sea otter in Alaska

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Yahoo News 16 Dec 08; ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal agency proposed nearly 6,000 square miles of southwest Alaska shoreline be protected ha...

Zimbabwe: extinction looms in a paradise lost to guns, greed and hunger

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Martin Fletcher, The Times 18 Dec 08; At first it seemed a paradise. Baboons played on the dusty track ahead of us. Impala and zebra, wilde...

Corn pests to thrive as global climate warms: study

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Karl Plume, Reuters 17 Dec 08; CHICAGO (Reuters) - Populations of insects that feed on corn and other crops in the United States may flouri...

£1 million boost for marine power in the UK

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Technology used in aviation and the oil industry is to form part of a £1 million plan to boost wave and tidal power in the UK. Louise Gray, ...

Prince Charles warns environmental threat even more alarming than recession

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The Prince of Wales, in his first intervention on the recession, has warned that the threat to the environment is even more "alarming...