Best of our wild blogs: 13 May 15

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13 June (Fri) evening: Free guided walk at Chek Jawa Boardwalk Adventures with the Naked Hermit Crabs Lots of Life at “Ghost Island”! ...

Moratorium on forest clearings may be extended: Indonesian minister

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Saifulbahri Ismail Channel NewsAsia 13 May 15; SINGAPORE: The suspension on clearing of forests for plantations and mining activities, wh...

Malaysia: Johor's Forest City could house up to 700,000: Developer

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REME AHMAD Straits Times 13 May 15; THE master developer for the 1,400ha reclaimed land in Johor near Tuas said that over the next 20 or ...

Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests

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Mark Kinver BBC News 12 May 15; Sri Lanka has lost an estimated 76% of its mangrove forests over the past 100 years Sri Lanka has becom...

Impact of El Nino on key crops in Asia

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Naveen Thukral PlanetArk 12 May 15; Closely watched weather forecasts by Japan and Australia on Tuesday are likely to confirm the return ...

'Substantial' El Nino event predicted

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Helen Briggs BBC 12 May 15; The El Nino effect, which can drive droughts and flooding, is under way in the tropical Pacific, say scientis...

100 British conservation groups oppose review of EU wildlife laws

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Changes to EU birds and habitat directives ‘single biggest threat’ to biodiversity and species, say groups as they launch their campaign to ...

Up to 90% of world's electronic waste is illegally dumped, says UN

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PCs and smartphones adding to ‘e-waste mountain’ that could reach 50m tonnes by 2017, much of it dumped and traded in developing countries, ...

Best of our wild blogs: 12 May 15

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First SG 50 Intertidal Walk to Pulau Hantu News from Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum His final-year project looks at impact of ne...

Exhibit by NTU student shows fragility of MacRitchie

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Audrey Tan The Straits Times AsiaOne 12 May 15; A slice of Singapore's wilderness has been recreated at the Nanyang Technological Uni...

Results of electric vehicle car-sharing proposals will be revealed end-2015: MTI

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Channel NewsAsia 11 May 15; SINGAPORE: The results of the Request for Information (RFI) inviting proposals for the trial of an electric v...

Indonesia: Palm sustainability group puts expansion ban on Golden Agri unit

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MICHAEL TAYLOR Reuters 11 May 15; May 11 A palm oil industry body has ordered a unit of one of the world's major producers to stop bu...