Best of our wild blogs: 23 Aug 12

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The Problem with Birds from Trek through Paradise The pool of high places from The annotated budak and Due for a hiding Big Sisters...

Residents fail in bid to save forested area

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Sites near Tanah Merah MRT station will be developed 'sensitively': URA Grace Chua Straits Times 23 Aug 12; THE plea by a group ...

NParks steps up efforts to manage wild boar nuisance

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Chng Kheng Leng/Kimberly Spykerman Channel NewsAsia 22 Aug 12; SINGAPORE: The authorities are stepping up efforts to manage the menace of...

Indonesia: No Gnawing! New Rat Without Molars Discovered

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Stephanie Pappas LiveScience 21 Aug 12; A newly discovered rat in Indonesia doesn't have any molars, making it the only known rodent ...

South Korean aquarium apologises for whale shark's death

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(AFP) Google News 22 Aug 12; SEOUL — A South Korean aquarium publicly apologised Wednesday for the death of a captive whale shark, and sa...

Dam projects threaten Mekong biodiversity

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ABC News 22 Aug 12; here is pressure on authorities in Laos to halt the development of a controversial dam project after a report showed ...

March of the dead zones

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Julian Cribb Science Alert 23 Aug 12; First published in the Canberra Times. Out of sight, and largely out of mind, something deeply dis...

El Nino lurks, limited impact on Australia likely

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David Fogarty PlanetArk 22 Aug 12; An emerging El Nino weather pattern is likely to have only a modest impact on crops and mining in Aust...

Best of our wild blogs: 22 Aug 12

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Biodiversity for kids during the September holidays! from Celebrating Singapore's BioDiversity! Feather star and coral garden at Big...

Tiger population of India facing 'total disaster' due to tourism ban

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High court decree condemned by environmentalists as well as those who earn their living from the endangered beast Helen Pidd guardian.co.uk...

World's Sea Life Is 'Facing Major Shock', Marine Scientists Warn

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ScienceDaily 20 Aug 12; Life in the world's oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous ...

UN agency calls for global action plan on drought

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AFP Yahoo News 22 Aug 12; The worst effects of drought could be avoided if countries had a disaster management plan to confront the probl...