Best of our wild blogs: 27 Jan 12

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Sign up for the first year-round coastal cleanup @ Tanah Merah! from Through The Backyards Chinese New Year Intertidal Escapade from Si...

Malaysia: Habitat loss keeps orang utan on the 'danger list'

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Roy Goh New Straits Times 27 Jan 12; A WILDLIFE sanctuary and three forest reserves stretch over the Lower Kinabatangan area in Sandakan,...

Malaysia: 'Don't keep leopard cats as pets'

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Nicholas Cheng New Straits Times 27 Jan 12; THE leopard cat may look like an everyday domesticated feline but cat lovers are warned not t...

World's only venomous primate 'under threat from pet trade'

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BBC News 25 Jan 12; An Oxford anthropologist has warned that the world's only venomous primate is under threat from the pet trade. ...

Indonesia: Almost 1,500 pig-nosed turtles “crammed like sardines” into suitcases

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TRAFFIC 26 Jan 12; The 1,495 turtles were concealed inside two suitcases en route to Jakarta, the nation’s capital and a major hub for il...

Indonesia to revoke mining permit after Bima protests

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Reuters 26 Jan 12; * Sumbawa island operations hit by local protests * Company Sumber Mineral Nusantara planned gold mining * In joint ...

Australia: Loggerhead sea turtle baby boom

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Fleur Bainger ABC News 26 Jan 12; Ningaloo Marine Park on Western Australia's Coral Coast is preparing itself for a baby boom. But ...

Only Civil Society Can Save Rio+20, Say Activists

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Mario Osava IPS News 24 Jan 12; RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 24, 2012 (Tierramérica) - Large-scale social mobilisation, including street protests ...

Europe: Biodiversity Loss Costs EU 450 Billion Euros a Year

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Environment News Service 26 Jan 12; BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 26, 2012 (ENS) - A silent crisis of biodiversity loss is costing the Europ...

Even worse Thai flood crisis this year unless govt is decisive

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The Nation/Asia News Network AsiaOne 26 Jan 12; Water experts yesterday urged the government to be decisive about flood-prevention measur...

First report on UK climate impact

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David Shukman BBC News 25 Jan 12; Climate change this century poses both risks and opportunities, according to the first comprehensive go...

How Climate Change, Urbanization Are Changing Disaster Aid

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Katie Nguyen and Megan Rowling PlanetArk 27 Jan 12; Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, ...