Best of our wild blogs: 16 Nov 09

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17 & 18 Nov: Leonids meteor showers from wild shores of singapore Observation Notes on the variability of the female Jacintha Eggfly fro...

Why it is crucial to act quickly on climate change

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Straits Times 16 Nov 09; I REFER to last Monday's letter by Mr Harry Mason, 'Public need to know the facts' . I am appalled to ...

Conservationists do 'deal with the devil' to save orang-utans

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Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridors Lewis Smith, The Independent 16 Nov 09; Wildlife campaigners ...

Greenpeace activists leave Pulp and Paper premises

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Andi Abdussalam, Antara 15 Nov 09; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Greenpeace activists --who set up a camp last month and sealed the heavy-duty eq...

Releasing rehabilitated orang utans in Borneo's forests

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Into the wild, once again A rehabilitator plans to start releasing rescued orangutans back into Borneo's forests. But there are concerns...

China builds centre to ease pandas into wild: media

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Yahoo News 14 Nov 09; BEIJING (AFP) – China has started construction on a research centre to help captive pandas adapt to the wild with a v...

Life in UK proves fatal to reindeer

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Jonathan Leake, Times Online 15 Nov 09; Reindeer imported to Britain for Santa’s grottoes and festive parades are dying prematurely after e...

Bluefin tuna quota cut not enough: environmentalists

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Yahoo News 16 Nov 09; SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) – Environmentalists on Sunday warned bluefin tuna was on its way to extinction after a intern...

Man-made ponds linked to arsenic in Bangladesh water

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Reuters 15 Nov 09; HONG KONG (Reuters) - Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamin...

How reputation could save the Earth

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David Rand and Martin Nowak, New Scientist 15 Nov 09; HAVE you ever noticed a friend or neighbour driving a new hybrid car and felt pressur...

Growing up in island country threatened by rising sea levels

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Xinhua 14 Nov 09; UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The future of the Maldives, the Indian Ocean islands facing the real prospect of disa...

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

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Michael Casey, Associated Press Yahoo News 15 Nov 09; KOKONOGI, Japan – A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from t...