Best of our wild blogs: 21 Aug 09

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New East Coast shore = New surprises from wonderful creation and wild shores of singapore Mynas as pets from Bird Ecology Study Group

Singapore ranked second most expensive city in Asia, after Tokyo

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Channel NewsAsia 20 Aug 09; SINGAPORE : Singapore has been ranked the second most expensive city in Asia, after Tokyo, with Hong Kong takin...

Carbon trading in Singapore to go full steam ahead in 2011

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Jessica Cheam, Straits Times 20 Aug 09; SINGAPORE'S ambition to become Asia's carbon trading centre will take some time to be reali...

Malayan Nature Society no to oil pipeline in forest

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Meena L. Ramadas, The Sun Daily 20 Aug 09; KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 20, 2009): The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) is opposing a proposed oil pipel...

Indonesia says it can handle forest fires alone

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Ary Hermawan, The Jakarta Post 20 Aug 09; Indonesian officials denied Thursday they were ignoring international offers to help combat incre...

El Nino`s impact becoming more real in Indonesia

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Fardah, Antara 21 Aug 09; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - While people in other parts of Indonesia are sound asleep, South Sulawesi villagers have ...

WWF celebrates saving of Himalayan forest and not so Common Leopard

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WWF 21 Aug 09; Lahore, Pakistan: An initiative by Pakistan’s Supreme Court and a media and legal campaign has ended a proposed large touris...

BirdLife International scours globe in search of long-lost birds

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BirdLife International in bid to discover whether 'missing' species are in fact extinct Emily Beament, The Independent 21 Aug 09; T...

Lemurs butchered in Madagascar

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Jody Bourton, BBC News 20 Aug 09; Shocking pictures of slaughtered lemurs killed for bush meat have been released by Conservation Internati...

Wealthy world at risk from water woes elsewhere

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WWF 20 Aug 09; Stockholm, Sweden: A study of the water footprint of Germany emphasises how the developed world needs to care for developing...

'Green palm oil' claims land Cadbury's in sticky chocolate mess

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Confectioner has made progress on Fairtrade, but a GreenPalm logo won't keep orang-utans safe in their rainforest habitats Fred Pearce, ...

Mangroves barriers reduce damage from increasingly frequent and intense typhoons

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CARE Reuters ReliefWeb 20 Aug 09; With 3200 km of coastline, Vietnam will be among the top five countries affected by rising sea levels. CA...