Best of our wild blogs: 12 Jan 09

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Semakau again for the Semakau Book Project mangroves and snakes and the amazing avicennia marina and more mangrove stories on the wild sh...

Dolphins at the Sentosa Integrated Resort: Senator cites Mexico's sad experience with dolphins

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Grace Chua, Straits Times 12 Jan 09; A MEXICAN senator was so dismayed at the plans of Resorts World at Sentosa to import bottlenose dolphi...

No hybrid car plant? He still lands 16 orders

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Singaporean picks up US$1.34m in bookings for his yet-to-be-built vehicle Christopher Tan, The Straits Times 12 Jan 09; BUDDING entrepreneu...

Two Google searches 'produce same CO2 as boiling a kettle'

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Making two internet searches through Google produces about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, it has been estimated. Jo...

East Kalimantan Has March Deadline on Trawling Regulations

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Jakarta Globe 11 Jan 09; The East Kalimantan provincial government has until March to issue regulations related to the central government’s...

Cat eradication on remote Macquarie Island causes fails to help native species say scientists

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A programme to eradicate cats in order to save birds on the remote Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean has resulted in an explosion in ra...

Rainforest loss may have been overstated, scientists

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Evidence rainforests regenerate after logging is causing a row in the scientific world with some experts claiming fewer species will go exti...

Amazon Deforestation: Earth's Heart and Lungs Dismembered

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Matthew Cimitile, Michigan State University LiveScience.com 10 Jan 09; This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partne...

Massive Greenland meltdown? Not so fast, say scientists

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Marlowe Hood Yahoo News 11 Jan 09; PARIS (AFP) – The recent acceleration of glacier melt-off in Greenland, which some scientists fear could...

Best of our wild blogs: 11 Jan 09

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Last Centurion of Ubin passes away on the Pulau Ubin Stories blog Job opening at the new NUS Office of Environmental Sustainability on the M...

We are landing fewer fish: Malaysian fishermen

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The New Straits Times 11 Jan 09; Fishermen are warning that how you would like your fish cooked might soon be the least of your concerns, b...

Prawn catch and mangroves link in Malaysia

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The New Straits Times 11 Jan 09; IN a paper presented at the National Fisheries Symposium in 2006, Universiti Malaya's Professor Dr Cho...