Best of our wild blogs: 21 Aug 15

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Elbowed Pierrot butterfly puddling on a crab Bird Ecology Study Group

Otter family spotted having a fun time at Marina Bay

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AsiaOne 20 Aug 15; A family of otters was spotted again frolicking at Marina Bay last weekend, attracting a crowd of excited onlookers wh...

Singapore increases potable water supply to Johor amid dry spell

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The Republic will supply about 22 million gallons of potable water per day - up from 16 million gallons per day - to Malaysia's Johor st...

Air quality 'may turn unhealthy' as haze returns

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120 hot spots detected mainly in southern half of Sumatra, says NEA Feng Zengkun and Wahyudi SoeriaatmadjaIndonesia Straits Times AsiaOne ...

Indonesia: Companies blamed for hectares of peatland fires in Jambi

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Jon Afrizal and Rizal Harahap, The Jakarta Post 21 Aug 15; It is believed that oil palm plantations and industrial forest companies have ...

Indonesia: Govt plays down fallout from El Niño

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Ganug Nugroho Adi, The Jakarta Post 20 Aug 15; The government has said that the El Niño weather phenomenon would not wreak havoc on the c...

Malaysia: Orang utan back at Bukit Piton

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The Star 21 Aug 15; LAHAD DATU: The northern portion of the Ulu Segama-Malua fo­rest, once ravaged by logging and fires in the 1980s an...

Malaysia: Sumatran Rhino vanishes from Malaysian jungles

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PATRICK LEE The Star 21 Aug 15; PETALING JAYA: The Sumatran rhino is now extinct from Malaysia's jungles, a group of scientists has f...

Malaysia: Endangered turtle saved and released back into the wild

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The Star 21 Aug 15; KOTA KINABALU: An endangered Asian giant softshell turtle rescued from a market here has been released into the wi...

Indonesian police fire tear gas, water cannon at Jakarta protesters

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Reuters 20 Aug 15; Residents facing eviction from a flood-prone part of Indonesia's capital of Jakarta clashed with police on Thursda...

Myanmar: Land Vanishes Under Monsoon Floods in New Satellite Image

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Elizabeth Goldbaum LiveScience.com Yahoo News 21 Aug 15; A river in Myanmar appears swollen with monsoon rain in a new photo taken from s...

July was hottest month recorded worldwide: U.S. scientists

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Valerie Volcovici and Susan Heavey PlanetArk 21 Aug 15; July was the warmest month ever on record worldwide and 2015 has been so far the ...