Best of our wild blogs: 2 Apr 09

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A Pied Triller comes a-calling on the Bird Ecology Study Group blog Sentosa on April Fool's Day on the teamseagrass blog More Sentosa su...

"Vote for Sipadan" campaign for new Seven Wonders of Nature

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All out for the Sipadan vote Daily Express 1 Apr 09; Kota Kinabalu: The State Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry, through the Sabah ...

Switching off lights a small step to activate big change

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Straits Times Forum 2 Apr 09; WE AT the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) would like to thank Mr Lor Choon Yee for his letter, ' Switchi...

India's GMR pushing ahead with Island Power project

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Ronnie Lim, Business Times 2 Apr 09; INDIA'S GMR Group is intent on pushing ahead with Singapore's long-stalled $1.5 billion Island...

A piece of Singapore history found on YouTube

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Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia 1 Apr 09; Singapore: Scenes few probably never imagined they'd see of Singapore have come to light throug...

Guardians of the electric reef

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James Porteous ScienceAlert 1 Apr 09; At Pemuteran, five hours driving northwest of Denpasar’s action, the silhouettes of Java’s massive vo...

The Big Question: What are national parks, and why do we have so many of them?

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Questions on UK National Parks Cahal Milmo, The Independent 2 Apr 09; Why are we asking this question now? Some 60 years after its 627 squa...

Indonesia should drop forest carbon credit plan: Greenpeace

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Yahoo News 1 Apr 09; JAKARTA (AFP) – Environmental group Greenpeace called on Indonesia Wednesday to drop plans to tackle global climate ch...

Brazilian Forest Conservationist Silva Wins Norway Prize

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John Acher, PlanetArk 2 Apr 09; OSLO - Brazilian senator and former environment minister Marina Silva won Norway's $100,000 Sophie Priz...

Rainforests may pump winds worldwide

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Fred Pearce, New Scientist 1 Apr 09; THE acres upon acres of lush tropical forest in the Amazon and tropical Africa are often referred to a...

Technology opens promise, perils of ocean mining

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Jay Lindsay, Associated Press Yahoo News 1 Apr 09; BOSTON – There's gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. Th...

U.S. Groups Say Vast Areas Off Limits To Clean Energy

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Jonathan Ernst, PlanetArk 2 Apr 09; SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. environmental groups on Wednesday published online maps of the American West with ...