Best of our wild blogs: 16 Oct 10

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22 Oct (Fri): Free screening of HOME followed up discussion by NUS Office of Environmental Sustainability, SEC and Green Drinks from Green ...

NO Plan B, Planet B

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UN meet will highlight urgent need to protect biodiversity Grace Chua Straits Times 16 Oct 10; ON MONDAY, policymakers from around the worl...

Singapore in drive to build electric car

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Amresh Gunasingham Straits Times 16 Oct 10; A LOCALLY made electric car will be ready next year. It will be designed and developed at a new...

Saving nature, economies at stake in Japan U.N. talks

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David Fogarty and Chisa Fujioka Reuters 15 Oct 10; SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) - Envoys from around the world meet in Japan from Monday to tr...

Financial Benefits In Indonesia's Biodiversity

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti Jakarta Globe 16 Oct 10; Jakarta. Indonesia stands to benefit financially if it agrees on a scheme to share genetic...

Three baby orangutans released into the wild

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The Jakarta Post 15 Oct 10; JAKARTA: Three orphaned baby orangutans recently rescued in an East Kalimantan jungle by the Center for Orangut...

Harnessing the sun to protect people and wildlife

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Purna Bahadur Kunwar, WWF-Nepal WWF 15 Oct 10; For Narad Mani Poudel, a 45-year-old farmer living in the Madi valley of Chitwan, Nepal, lif...

Stop buying mangrove logs: Selangor government to developers

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Stuart Michael The Star 16 Oct 10; The Selangor government has called on developers to stop buying mangrove logs for construction. Accordin...

Extreme weather forces Indonesia to import rice

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Yahoo News 15 Oct 10; JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesia will be forced to import rice in bulk and reduce exports of other commodities after extreme...

Wasior flood disaster caused by deforestation: Indonesian activists

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Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, The Jakarta Post 15 Oct 10; Environmentalists insisted Thursday that the fatal flash floods in Wasior ...

Civil Society Coalition Pushes Government to Finally Halt Logging Permits

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti & Markus Junianto Sihaloho Jakarta Globe 14 Oct 10; Jakarta. Ten civil-society groups, including Greenpeace, ha...

Mekong countries should delay dam projects for decade: study

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Yahoo News 15 Oct 10; PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Countries in the lower Mekong River region should delay any decisions about building hydropower da...