Best of our wild blogs: 15 Dec 09

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It still stings from The annotated budak and Palparazzi Venus Drive from Singapore Nature An Ubin stroll with fabulous trees from wild shor...

'Sand pirates play foul in straits'

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Chong Chee Seong, New Straits Times 14 Dec 09; MUAR: For several moments yesterday, three fishermen feared the worst. The net dangling from...

Singapore fourth best place for expat posting: Poll

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Thumbs up for logistics, health care, transport in HSBC global survey Alvin Foo, Straits Times 15 Dec 09; SINGAPORE is the fourth most attr...

Singapore can be carbon trade hub for ships

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Tilak K. Doshi, For The Straits Times 15 Dec 09; AMONG the array of climate change issues facing negotiators at the United Nations climate ...

Generate carbon credits if you Care

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Today Online 15 Dec 09; SINGAPORE - Building owners in Singapore can soon gain carbon credits while cooling their buildings more efficientl...

Nearly 100 New Species Described by California Academy of Sciences in 2009

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ScienceDaily 14 Dec 09; In 2009, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 94 new relatives to our family tree. The new speci...

Phuket rescue effort fails to save dolphin

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Phuket Gazette 14 Dec 09; PHUKET CITY: A Risso’s dolphin that washed ashore in Chalong on Friday night and later died, might have been suff...

Dugong Found Snared By Fishing Nets in Bali

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Made Arya Kencana Jakarta Globe 14 Dec 09; Badung, Bali. A young, wounded dugong was found struggling in fishing nets on Sunday, stranded o...

Oil Spill in Sumatra, No Explosion, Says ConocoPhillips

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti Jakarta Globe 14 Dec 09; US energy giant ConocoPhillips strongly denied on Monday that there was an explosion on th...

Bird's nest farming: Sabah needs proper laws

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Daily Express 14 Dec 09; Kota Kinabalu: Sabah needs a proper set of laws and guidelines to regulate the fast-growing swiftlet nest farming ...

Decentralization jeopardizes forest in Papua

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Nethy Dharma Somba, The Jakarta Post 14 Dec 09; Regional autonomy in Papua poses a threat to forests in the province because the infrastruc...

Brazil Moves To Cut Amazon Destruction By Ranchers

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Raymond Colitt, PlanetArk 15 Dec 09; MARABA, Brazil - Brazil took a step forward in protecting the Amazon rainforest on Wednesday, starting...