Best of our wild blogs: 2 Feb 11

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Celebrating Singapore's Wetlands! from Celebrating Singapore's BioDiversity! Setting up loggers at Semakau (1 Feb 11) from teamseagr...

Singapore: Fresh food prices up at least 20%

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Evelyn Lam Channel NewsAsia 1 Feb 11; SINGAPORE : The surge in fresh food prices just before Lunar New Year is a common occurrence, but pri...

Year of the Tiger ends with roadmap to save species

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WWF 1 Feb 11; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar comes to an end on Wednesday having yielded big ...

Floods: The Worst Is Over In Johor, Says PM

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Bernama 1 Feb 11; LABIS, Feb 1 (Bernama) -- A day after returning from his official visit to Abu Dhabi, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun...

Malaysia's vanishing wetlands

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The Star 1 Feb 11; WE are losing our peatlands. As vast areas of peat swamp forest continue to be cleared, razed and drained, little of Mal...

Deforestation rate in Malaysia more than triple that of Asia combined: report

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The destroyed rainforests are mostly converted to palm oil plantations Associated Press Business Times 2 Feb 11; (AMSTERDAM) New satellite ...

Indonesia makes startling admission on forests

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Yahoo News 1 Feb 11; JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesia admitted Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally on B...

Sarawak has many areas that can be designated as Ramsar sites

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Zora Chan The Star 2 Feb 11; SARAWAK has several potential sites to be designated as Ramsar sites including man-made structures like Bakun ...

Indonesia: Sumatran elephants in Bengkulu increasingly isolated

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Antara 1 Feb 11; Bengkulu (ANTARA News) - Tens of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus) living in limited production forests at the special ...

Indonesia: Riau to Receive Aid For Fire Prevention

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti Jakarta Globe 1 Feb 11; Bengkalis, Riau. The Environment Ministry announced on Monday that it had selected Bengkali...

Thailand's famed Pattaya beach in danger of vanishing

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Noppawan Bunluesilp Reuters 1 Feb 11; PATTAYA, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - The days of R&R on Thailand's famous Pattaya beach could ...

Refiners take Indonesian palm oil as Malaysia floods stir food price fear

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* Thailand to buy 120,000 tonnes of crude palm oil-govt * Refiners say Malaysian planters palm oil for processing * Malaysian refiners eyein...