Best of our wild blogs: 1 Apr 09

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Fifth Anniversary! Celebrating five years of awareness building! on the Pulau Hantu blog and video clips ! Orange-headed Thrush on the Bir...

AVA nets 48 exotic animals in island-wide raid

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Some species 'rarer than tigers' Teh Jen Lee, The New Paper 1 Apr 09; THE list reads like one from the Little Shop of Horrors. A to...

Marina Barrage: 10 tonnes of litter cleared daily

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All clogged up Today Online 1 Apr 09; Every day, 10 tonnes of litter are collected from the drains and canals that lead to the Marina Reser...

PUB to begin desalting process for Marina Reservoir in April

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Timothy Ouyang, Channel NewsAsia 31 Mar 09; SINGAPORE: Singapore's first-ever city reservoir will begin its conversion to a freshwater ...

Clothes dryers sold in Singapore to display energy efficiency ticks

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Hasnita A Majid/Ting Kheng Siong, Channel NewsAsia 31 Mar 09; SINGAPORE : From next month, all clothes dryers sold in Singapore will be lab...

Earth population 'exceeds limits'

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Steven Duke, BBC 31 Mar 09; There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors...

FAO report says overfishing putting sea cukes at risk

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The trouble with sea cucumbers FAO 1 Apr 09; 1 April 2009, Rome - For many in the western world, they're a summer oddity — strange blobs...

Two rare elephants shot dead in Indonesian jungles

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Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press 31 Mar 09; JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Two Sumatran elephants were found dead with gunshots to the head in a ...

6,000 Rare, Large River Dolphins Found in Bangladesh

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Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News 31 Mar 09; A previously unknown population of Irrawaddy dolphins discovered in Banglades...

Rumours of Australian possum's death were greatly exaggerated

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Rachel Nowak, New Scientist 31 Mar 09; Last December, the Australian lemuroid ringtail possum was widely reported as the first possible ext...

Plan Bee: As Honeybees Die Out, Will Other Species Take Their Place?

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In a race against time, researchers propagate native solitary bees as an alternative to our most important pollinators Christopher Mims, Sci...

Hundreds of Dead Penguins Wash Up on Beach in Southern Chile

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Latin American Herald Tribune 1 Apr 09; SANTIAGO – Several hundred dead penguins have washed up on a beach in southern Chile in the past fe...