Best of our wild blogs: 29 Dec 08

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Stars on Sembawang Beach? on the wild shores of singapore blog It hurts... on the annotated budak blog Pacific Golden Plover catching a crab...

40,000 in Singapore sign petition to end animal cruelty

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Singaporeans do care 40,000 sign petition to end animal cruelty –the most in Asia so far Esther Ng, Today Online 27 Dec 08; THE feat surpri...

HSBC bankrolls marine conservation project with S$600,000 donation

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Ali Smith, Channel NewsAsia 28 Dec 08; SINGAPORE: Pulau Semakau may be Singapore's only remaining landfill. But if an ambitious environ...

Bicycle rental a hit in Paris: Singapore considering similar set up

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Straits Times 29 Dec 08; ACCOUNTANT Michel Lepaulnier no longer battles the crowds on the Paris Metro during the early morning rush hour. I...

Asia appetite for turtles seen as a threat to Florida species

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The reptiles, especially softshell turtles, are prized in China as food and as a source for traditional medicines. U.S. experts fear the tra...

UK's holiday waste smashes all records

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Christmas packaging, millions of trees and up to a billion cards are heading to landfill – even though much of it could be recycled Rachel S...

Best of our wild blogs: 28 Dec 08

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First time at Sultan Shoal on the wonderful creation blog and manta blog and discovery blog . Dead Colugo found near Chestnut Drive on the...

Malaysia's eye in sky to deter illegal loggers

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New Straits Times 28 Dec 08; Q: Whose idea was the system? A: The satellite-based computerised system was mooted by the Malaysian Remote Se...

Malaysian environmental group urges government to preserve mangroves

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SAM Urge Government To Preserve Mangrove Forest Bernama 26 Dec 08; PENANG, Dec 26 (Bernama) -- Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has urged the go...

The seduction of shopping in Singapore

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Why get seduced if you can't afford it? Reggie J, The New Paper 28 Dec 08; WE all remember those heady days when we went to the shops a...

Support is growing for ‘rewilding’ in the UK

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If you go down to the woods... Support is growing for ‘rewilding’, which could see bears, wolves and elk roaming Britain Jonathan Leake, The...

Interview with Achim Steiner: Let science decide, not politics

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Elizabeth John, New Straits Times 27 Dec 08; Running out of resources, choking on pollution and plagued by economic woes — time to rethink ...