Best of our wild blogs: 29 Apr 11

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Clammies @ Terumbu Bemban from Colourful Clouds Fishtail palm Caryota mitis – The common palm civet’s favourite food? from The Diet of the ...

Road-Building Plans Threaten Indonesian Tigers

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Jakarta Globe 28 Apr 11; Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world...

Malaysia: RM745m lost to illegal logging, sand mining

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New Straits Times 29 Apr 11; KUALA LUMPUR: The country lost an estimated RM754 million to sand thieves and illegal loggers last year. Accor...

Indonesia: Illegal Logging, Mining Ravages Kalimantan, Costs Indonesia $36.4b

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Jakarta Globe 28 Apr 11; The Ministry of Forestry says illegal logging, land clearance, forest fires and mining has devastated Indonesian B...

Trapping threatens near-extinct Philippine eagle

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Yahoo News 28 Apr 11; MANILA (AFP) – Conservationists raised alarm Thursday over the future of the near-extinct Philippine eagle after seve...

Humans Not Solely to Blame for Sea Turtle Declines

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Rebecca Kessler Science Now 28 Apr 11; Humans are pushing sea turtles to the brink of extinction by entangling them in fishing gear, tossin...

Rare “Yangtze Mermaids” released in nature reserve

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WWF 23 Apr 11; Shishou, China – Two finless porpoises were released into the Tian-e-zhou Oxbow nature reserve today, marking the first step...

Huge sperm whale washes up on Sydney beach

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Yahoo News 28 Apr 11; SYDNEY (AFP) – A dead 10-metre (32-feet) sperm whale has washed up on a Sydney beach, with rescuers struggling Thursd...

Boom and bust signals ecosystem collapse

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Richard Black BBC News 28 Apr 11; An experiment in a US lake suggests that ecosystem collapses could be predicted, given the right monitori...

Global warming threat amid nuclear doubts: IEA

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Yahoo News 28 Apr 11; HONG KONG (AFP) – A global warming target could be missed three times over if countries fail to promote clean energy,...

Recession Briefly Axed Greenhouse Gases In 2009

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Alister Doyle PlanetArk 28 Apr 11; Recession drove industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions down 5.6 percent in 2009 but analys...

Major Polluters Say 2011 Climate Deal "Not Doable"

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Pete Harrison PlanetArk 28 Apr 11; The world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters do not expect a legally-binding deal to tackle climate c...