Year of the Tiger Dawns With Just 3,200 Wild Tigers Left

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Environmental News Service 28 Dec 09; KATHMANDU, Nepal, December 28, 2009 (ENS) - To mark 2010 as Year of the Tiger, the government of Nepa...

India's Last "Dancing", Endangered Bear Set Free

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Sunil Kataria, PlanetArk 29 Dec 09; BANGALORE - Raju the bear will never have to smoke cigarettes or dance on his hind legs under the hot s...

Wild horse roundup to begin in Nevada amid protest

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Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Yahoo News 20 Dec 09; LAS VEGAS – A two-month capture of about 2,500 wild horses from public and private lan...

Africa-wide "Great Green Wall" to Halt Sahara's Spread?

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Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News 28 Dec 09; China built its famous Great Wall to keep out marauders. Now, millennia later...

'Back to nature' cuts flood risks

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Mark Kinver, BBC News 28 Dec 09; Reconnecting flood-plains to rivers will help reduce the risk of future flooding, suggest US scientists. A...

Climate and humans: the long view

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Professor Clive Finlayson Director, Gibraltar Museum BBC News 24 Dec 09; We seem preoccupied today by looming predictions of imminent clima...

China introduces law to boost renewable energy

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Lucy Hornby, Reuters 28 Dec 09; BEIJING (Reuters) - A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by ...

Best of our wild blogs: 28 Dec 09

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Last Dive For Year 2009 from colourful clouds Butterfly Survival Strategies - Part 1 from Butterflies of Singapore Diego the devourer from T...

Garbage Disposal Sites in Malaysia Getting 'Critical'?

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Syed Azwan Syed Ali, Bernama 28 Dec 09; This is the first part in a series of two features on garbage disposal KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 (Bernam...

A season of feasting... and wasting

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Waste collector sees up to 30% spike in dumped food during festive period Victoria Vaughan and Kim Spykerman, Straits Times 28 Dec 09; CHRI...

Safety of reservoir user comes first but PUB reviewing rules

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Straits Times Forum 28 Dec 09; PUB, the national water agency, thanks Mr George Wee ('Ease up - Review the need for licences for doing ...

Owners of protected animals in Malaysia have six months to register

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The Star 28 Dec 09; PETALING JAYA: Owners of endangered species will be required to apply for permits from the Wildlife and National Parks ...