Best of our wild blogs: 27 May 11

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Free Chek Jawa Boardwalk outing on 11 June from Adventures with the Naked Hermit Crabs A salak palm, once thought to be lost to Singapore fr...

Roadside fruit for elderly, disabled

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Plucking fruit without permission an offence Feng Zengkun Straits Times 26 May 11; THE low-hanging fruit on roadside trees may be tempting ...

Singapore firms lag in green reporting

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Business Times 27 May 11; However, they are expected to become more aware of sustainability reporting with the release of guidelines by SGX...

Singapore water industry's share of GDP to hit $1.25b

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Business-friendly environment leads to investment flow; local firms gain $8.4b in foreign deals Feng Zengkun Straits Times 27 May 11; INVES...

Kalimantan center of world`s flora

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Antara 26 May 11; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Kalimantan Island (Borneo) is one of the world`s flora center because the diversity of trees in a...

Indonesian Forestry Ministry to compensate victims of human-animal conflicts

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Antara 26 May 11; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The forestry ministry plans to compensate victims of human-animal conflicts which often occur on ...

Malaysia: Kelantan Government Urged To Stop Logging At Water Catchment Areas

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Bernama 26 May 11; PASIR PUTEH, May 26 (Bernama) -- The Kelantan PAS government has been urged to stop logging activities in water catchmen...

Philippines: Militant group demands action vs marine poachers

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Jocelyn R. Uy Philippine Daily Inquirer 26 May 11; MANILA, Philippines—A militant fisherfolk organization demanded Thursday that the Bureau...

Seafood Fraud Hurts Ocean Conservation: Report

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Deborah Zabarenko PlanetArk 26 May 11; U.S. seafood fraud -- where farmed, imported or endangered fish is sold as wild, local and sustainab...

Scientists Argue Against Conclusion That Bacteria Consumed Deepwater Horizon Methane

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ScienceDaily 26 May 11; A technical comment published in the May 27 edition of the journal Science casts doubt on a widely publicized study...

BP oil spill partly blamed for Gulf dolphin deaths

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Yahoo News 27 May 11; MIAMI (AFP) – The deaths of over 150 dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico so far this year is due in part to the devastatin...

Greenpeace warns of radioactive sea life off Japan

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Yuka Ito Yahoo News 26 May 11; TOKYO (AFP) – Environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilomet...