Best of our wild blogs: 24 Aug 10

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3 Sep (Fri): Workshop for Nature Guides - Dragons and Damsels from Celebrating Singapore's BioDiversity! Your seagrass photos wanted for...

Climate change and Singapore: Global issue, local impacts

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Tan Yong Soon Business Times 24 Aug 10; CLIMATE change is one of the most important and pressing challenges facing the international commun...

Sumatra's Arnoldi the world`s biggest rafflesia

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Antara 23 Aug 10; Bengkulu (ANTARA News) - Arnoldi Rafflesia is the biggest of the 25 known rafflesia snake-plant in the world, a rafflesia...

Only six percent of Indonesia's coral reefs in excellent condition

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Antara 23 Aug 10; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Only six percent of Indonesia`s coral reefs is now still in excellent condition, a senior marine ...

Sea turtles in Malaysia need a hospital

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Lee Yen Mun The Star 24 Aug 10; PETALING JAYA: Pollution, and not poaching, is the main cause for the dwindling turtle population. Tengku A...

Over 10 wild animals killed on Indonesia's Lampung highway daily

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Antara 23 Aug 10; Liwa, West Lampung (ANTARA News) - Over 10 wild animals from the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park forest are killed da...

Sarawak biodiversity and products for the world

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Zora Chan The Star 24 Aug 10; SARAWAK Biodiversity Centre’s (SBC) traditional knowledge documentation programme has come a long way from pl...

Kenya seizes two tonnes of elephant ivory: officials

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Yahoo News 23 Aug 10; NAIROBI (AFP) – Kenyan authorities have seized two tonnes of raw elephant ivory and five rhino horns bound for Malays...

Geoengineering won't curb sea-level rise

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Space mirrors and 'volcanic' blasts are not an easy fix for the rise in sea levels. Richard Lovett Nature.com 23 Aug 10; Unless the...

If a Country Sinks Beneath the Sea, Is It Still a Country?

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Lisa Friedman, The New York Times 23 Aug 10; Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented lega...

Analysis shows up deadly combination in fire disaster States

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WWF 23 Aug 10; Moscow & Athens – Analysis of catastrophic wildfires in Russia and Greece has highlighted a deadly combination of climat...

Putin ponders climate change in Arctic Russia

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* Putin visits Arctic Circle to look at melting permafrost * Seeks advice on climate change from scientists Darya Korsunskaya Reuters AlertN...