Florida manatees' record numbers not likely to renew 'endangered' debate

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A survey found nearly 4,000 manatees in Florida, but the find is unlikely to reignite a battle over endangered status. Curtin Morgan, Miami ...

Best of our wild blogs: 29 Jan 09

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Rare sand dollar at Lazarus? on the wonderful creation blog What do waders do when it rains? on the Bird Ecology Study Group blog Post Picni...

SCDF put out 146 bush fires this month

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Judith Tan & Kimberly Spykerman, Straits Times 29 Jan 09; BUSH fires have flared up across Singapore, as the island is in the grip of a...

Food prices remained largely stable in Singapore last year

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Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia 28 Jan 09; SINGAPORE: According to a survey of 255 food samples conducted by the Consumers Association of Sin...

S$144.6m contract awarded for Punggol redevelopment

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Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia 28 Jan 09; SINGAPORE: The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has awarded a S$144.6 million contract to Koh...

Hikers and bikers at Bukit Timah Mountain Bike Trail

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Happy trails, everyone Some give-and-take between hikers andbikers would make Bukit Timah a much nicer place Chiang Pak Chien, Today Online ...

Consumerism hampers poverty alleviation program

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Agus Maryono, The Jakarta Post 28 Jan 09; The government initiated the National Self Reliance Community Empowerment (PNPM) program five yea...

European brown bears bounce back from brink of extinction

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Richard Owen, The Times 28 Jan 09; If you go down to the woods today in Italy, prepare for a big surprise. After years in which brown bears...

Liberian army worms march into Guinea

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Yahoo News 28 Jan 09; CONAKRY (AFP) – Army worms that have already devastated Liberian crops entered neighbouring Guinea over the weekend, ...

Co-op bans eight pesticides after worldwide beehive collapse

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First UK supermarket chain – and Britain's biggest farmer – to prohibit chemicals implicated in the death of over one-third of British b...

Fertiliser use curbed near Barrier Reef

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Tony Moore, Brisbane Times 29 Jan 09; New state laws aimed at preventing fertilisers and pesticides from running into rivers that flow towa...

Top Australian scientists warn of catastrophic rise in sea levels

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ABC News 28 Jan 09; Several of Australia's most pre-eminent climate change scientists have given evidence to a federal parliamentary co...