Best of our wild blogs: 26 May 09

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Irresponsible disposal of fishing line on the Bird Ecology Study Group blog Blue Plan handed to Minister Yaacob on the Blue Water Volunteers...

Trial between animal welfare group ACRES and contractor begins

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Ong Dai Lin, Today Channel NewsAsia 25 May 09; SINGAPORE : The company had allegedly dumped wood chips on the site of an animal shelter c...

Man leaves German Shepherd in sea and speeds away from Pulau Ubin in boat

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Pricey breeds of dogs spotted abandoned on Pulau Ubin include: German shepherd, Siberian husky, Jack russell terrier Desmond Ng, The New Pap...

Shell complex to use Newater

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Straits Times 26 May 09; OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday that its Singapore project has signed a deal to use Newater in its...

Test water purity - in an office

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Straits Times 26 May 09; WATER purity is key for marine life to survive, and a trio of Hwa Chong Institution students have come up with a f...

Cool way to fight global warming

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Jalelah Abu Baker, Straits Times 26 May 09; TAKING the fight against global warming to new heights, five students here want to start irriga...

Singapore grouping inks Nanjing eco-island pact

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Development will be for commercial, industrial and residential uses Vincent Wee, Business Times 26 May 09; SINGAPORE Intelligent Eco Island...

Rising sea levels: Survival tips from 5000 BC

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Catherine Brahic, New Scientist 25 May 09; WITH rising seas lapping at coastal cities and threatening to engulf entire islands in the not-t...

92 Indonesian islands `vulnerable to being claimed by foreigners'

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Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta Post 25 May 09; Indonesia's 92 outer islands from Aceh to Papua, are at risk of being claimed by foreign c...

WWF delivers on 100 million hectares of wetlands pledge

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WWF 25 May 09; Catamarca, Argentina - Declaration of the high Andes home to two of the three species of Andean flamingos marks WWF’s delive...

Rare animals 'to be moved from native habitats because of climate change'

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Endangered animals from wildcats to butterflies and fish could be transported from their native habitats to other countries under controvers...

Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'

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Guy Newey Yahoo News 25 May 09; HONG KONG (AFP) – A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of th...