Best of our wild blogs: 8 Feb 12

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Mangrove Pitta handling crabs from Bird Ecology Study Group bathing collared kingfisher @ chek jawa - Jan2012 from sgbeachbum

18 endangered dolphins spotted off Borneo: WWF

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Angela Dewan (AFP) Google News 7 Feb 12; JAKARTA — Conservation group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in ...

Orangutan 'exterminators' on trial in Indonesia

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(AFP) Google News 7 Feb 12; TENGGARONG, Indonesia — Three Indonesians and a Malaysian went on trial Tuesday for killing endangered orangu...

Indonesia: Can the jungle law save orangutans?

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Panut Hadisiswoyo and Gunung Gea, Medan Jakarta Post 7 Feb 12; There have probably been at least 2,800 confiscations of illegally kept or...

Malaysian Department mulls 'crocodile net' ban

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New Straits Times 8 Feb 12; JITRA: The use of "crocodile nets", which have been found to be a threat to marine life may be bann...

Ancient Seagrass Holds Secrets of the Oldest Living Organism On Earth

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ScienceDaily 7 Feb 12; It's big, it's old and it lives under the sea -- and now an international research collaboration with The ...

Harder to breathe easy in Asia?

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Nicholas Fang and Henrick Tsjeng Today Online 8 Feb 12; Even as the smoke clears after this year's Lunar New Year festivities, govern...

Plantings Of Biotech Crops Grow Globally In 2011: Report

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Carey Gillam PlanetArk 8 Feb 12; The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread in...

Best of our wild blogs: 7 Feb 12

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New baby civets coming soon? from Life of a common palm civet in Singapore The sound of your moves from The annotated budak racket-ta...

Use Rio+20 to overhaul idea of growth, urges EU climate chief

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Connie Hedegaard says GDP model of growth causes overconsumption, drives up commodity prices and ignores the environment Fiona Harvey guard...

Malaysia: Endangered wildlife can have easier migration

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Muguntan Vanar The Star 7 Feb 12; KOTA KINABALU: A move is under way to connect the country's largest wildlife forest reserve, Tabin,...

Malaysia: Eye in the sky on crocodiles

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Satellite tagging of crocs to help reduce number of attacks Avila Geraldine New Straits Times 7 Feb 12; OVER the past 10 years, there ha...