Best of our wild blogs: 28 Apr 12

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Join this community art effort to celebrate our biodiversity! from Celebrating Singapore's BioDiversity! The morning storm interrupt...

Do we need that plastic bag?

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Issue isn't about getting rid of plastic bags, but about reducing their use Grace Chua 28 Apr 12; A FEW days ago, I found myself in ...

$1.3m contest to design Singapore's new-age port launched

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Challenge calls for revolutionary designs from participants Jonathan Kwok Straits Times 28 Apr 12; A LONG-AWAITED contest with a US$1 mi...

$1m land-based Singapore fish farm opens

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Apollo Aquarium's Lim Chu Kang farm will rear groupers Grace Chua Straits Times 28 Apr 12; FISH farm Apollo Aquarium yesterday opene...

Punggol Waterway bags top global award

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Singapore project is first in Asia to win environmental prize rarely given outside US Sara Pua Straits Times 28 Apr 12; A NEW man-made w...

Taking the silk road to tougher fabric

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RP scientists' supersilk can be used in bulletproof vests, airplane parts Grace Chua Straits Times 28 Apr 12; IN THE past two years,...

Plastic Trash in Oceans May Be 'Vastly' Underestimated

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Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Yahoo News 27 Apr 12; An oceanographer who noticed a disappearing act in which the surface of the ocean went f...

Malaysia: Poachers threaten Johor bird sanctuary

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Mohd Farhaan Shah The Star 28 Apr 12; JOHOR BARU: Poachers have entered the Panti Bird Sanctuary in Kota Tinggi to hunt and trap the wild...

Large pangolin seizure highlights timeliness of re-forming IUCN-SSC Pangolin Specialist Group

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TRAFFIC 27 Apr 12; Ha Noi, Viet Nam, 27th April, 2012—Local enforcement authorities have seized 304 kilograms (71 individuals) of live Pa...

Pacific Reef Sharks Vanishing Near Populated Islands

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Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Yahoo News 27 Apr 12; As many as 90 percent of reef sharks have disappeared from reefs near populated islan...

Ecotourism Not a Quick Fix for Poverty, Study Indicates

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Wynne Parry, LiveScience Yahoo News 28 Apr 12; Truly impoverished people are less likely to benefit economically from nature-based touris...

Rio+20 talks 'too focused on techno fixes', UN hears

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Aisling Irwin SciDev 27 Apr 12; The conviction that new technologies will solve the world's environmental and social problems has ove...