Best of our wild blogs: 29 Sep 11

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Ric O’Barry in Singapore next Tuesday! from Green Drinks Singapore Shell refinery fire at Bukom: what natural shores nearby? from wil...

Shell refinery fire at Bukom continues on Thursday

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3 more explosions heard at Bukom around noon on Thursday Amanda Tan Straits Times 29 Sep 11 12:24pm; Three more explosions were heard ar...

Fire at Shell refinery on Pulau Bukom

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Fire at Shell's Bukom refinery Afternoon blaze flares up again in the evening; workers go home Lin Wenjian, Leonard Lim, Maria Almenoa...

Singapore's population reaches 5.1 million

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Channel NewsAsia 28 Sep 11; SINGAPORE: Latest statistics from the Population Trends 2011 report released on Wednesday showed Singapore...

Hazy conditions in Singapore

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Channel NewsAsia 29 Sep 11; SINGAPORE: Many in Singapore woke up to a burnt smell and hazy skies in the air on Thursday morning. A chec...

Indonesia: Forest Loss Blamed for Animal Attack Death

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Dwi Lusiana Jakarta Globe 28 Sep 11; Malang, East Java. After a farmer was gored to death by a species of wild cattle, an animal protecti...

Indonesia: Mass Dolphin Die-Off Puzzles Banten Officials

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti Jakarta Globe 28 Sep 11; Sixteen dolphins have died in the waters off of Ujung Kulon, Banten, after being strande...

Thailand breaches rules on wild dolphins in captivity

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Edwin Wiek, Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand The Nation 29 Sep 11; Thailand is witnessing an ever-increasing legal and illegal explo...

New Zealand: Endangered dolphins near extinction

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Experts say fishing methods are to blame, with one subspecies in New Zealand down to fewer than 100 mammals Press Association guardian.co.u...

Sharks in trouble on the Great Barrier Reef and worldwide

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James Cook University Science Alert 29 Sep 11; Sharks are in big trouble on the Great Barrier Reef and worldwide, according to an Austral...

Experts Identify World’s Most Threatened Sea Turtle Populations

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IUCN 29 Sep 11; Top sea turtle experts from around the globe have discovered that almost half (45%) of the world’s threatened sea turtle ...

South Africans, Vietnamese meet on rhino poaching

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Donna Bryson, Associated Press Google News 28 Sep 11; JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More needs to be done to dispel the myth among the Vietnamese t...