Best of our wild blogs: 20 Jan 10

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abandoned fishing nets @ chek jawa from sgbeachbum Back to the sun from The annotated budak and Soiled Associations and A Loaf for the Lan...

Marsiling trees: Some felled, others spared

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Esther Ng, Today Online 20 Jan 10; SINGAPORE - A rambutan, two soursop and three mango trees have been felled. Still, residents of Blocks 1...

Home's no place for wildlife in Singapore

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Law penalises those who keep wildlife as pets; AVA assesses them case by case Ang Yiying, Straits Times 20 Jan 10; PET shop retail supervis...

Don’t relocate orangutans for eco-tourism: Sabah

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Mungutan Vanar, The Star 19 Jan 10; KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is not keen to relocate any orangutans to peninsular Malaysia for eco-tourism purp...

Little Lizards Make Big Money For Indonesian Villagers

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Heru Asprihanto, PlanetArk 20 Jan 10; JAKARTA - A tiny Indonesian lizard has become big business for impoverished villagers in Indonesia, w...

Rare bird's breeding ground found in Afghanistan

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Michael Casey, Associated Press Yahoo News 18 Jan 10; BANGKOK – The first known breeding area of one of the world's rarest birds has be...

Haiti's Environment Needs Long-Term Help: Experts

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Alister Doyle, PlanetArk 20 Jan 10; OSLO - Long-term efforts to help Haiti recover from the earthquake will have to reverse environmental d...

When our economic interests are at stake, the war on nature resumes

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All this badger cull will prove is that our relations with the natural world have scarcely altered since the dark ages George Monbiot, guard...

Fight to save one of the rarest plant species in the world

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Simon Hancock, BBC News 19 Jan 10; A botanist from Kew Gardens is fighting to save one of the rarest plant species in the world, the Bastar...

WWF says China's wild tigers face extinction

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Yahoo News 19 Jan 10; BEIJING (AFP) – The World Wildlife Fund warned on Tuesday that the wild tiger faced extinction in China after having ...

Giant, leaping Asian carp threaten US Great Lakes

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Mira Oberman Yahoo News 20 Jan 10; CHICAGO (AFP) – Huge Asian carp, which act like "aquatic vacuum cleaners" and leap into the ai...

Whale row prompts Japan-Australia defence rethink

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Yahoo News 19 Jan 10; TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese ruling party lawmakers have questioned a plan to sign a defence logistics accord with Australi...