Best of our wild blogs: 16 Oct 15

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Marine Park Public Talks 2015 The Leafmonkey Workshop Tanimbar Corella and the Beach Barringtonia fruit Bird Ecology Study Group Ca...

Why wealthy Singapore resists tough domestic climate action

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Coco Liu ClimateWire 15 Oct 15; SINGAPORE -- This is a rich island nation, and despite pressures to help combat climate change, it fully ...

Indonesian Religious Groups Take United Stand Against Forest Fires

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Basten Gokkon Jakarta Globe 15 Oct 15; Jakarta. Indonesian religious leaders have denounced the setting of fires in Sumatra and Kalimanta...

Train stalled? It may be balloon's fault

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Priscilla Goy, The Straits Times AsiaOne 16 Oct 15; Did you know that your shiny, metallic helium balloons could disrupt MRT train servic...

Why 5 S’poreans went to haze central in Indonesia to distribute N95 masks

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Today Online 16 Oct 15; There has been no shortage of views with regards to the haze afflicting Singapore and the region of late. In part...

Historic floods show true cost of Vietnam's cheap coal

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Vietnam’s coal industry was hit by one of its worst environmental disasters this year after torrential rain flooded its coal hub in the nort...

Singaporeans regularly waste food, survey finds

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DON MENDOZA Today Online 15 Oct 15; SINGAPORE — Ahead of World Food Day tomorrow (Oct 16), a recent report has found that 77 per cent of ...

Malaysia: PM seeks advice from experts at Apec to tackle smog in the country

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RAZAK AHMAD The Star 16 Oct 15; KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak created a stir when he walked back to the podium after giving ...

Indonesia: 2 Sumatran elephants found dead in Aceh

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Associated Press Jakarta Post 15 Oct 15; Two endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Aceh province and are believed to have...

Australia: Report finds Barrier Reef seagrass health remains poor but recovery continuing

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David Chen ABC News 15 Oct 15; Researchers says seagrass in the Great Barrier Reef remains vulnerable, despite continued recovery. The ...

India: Action plan for conservation of sea turtle, dugong ready

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D.J. WALTER SCOTT The Hindu 15 Oct 15; Sea grass mapping, aerial survey completed to conserve dugong Gulf of Mannar Marine National Par...

East Hawaii coral bleaching ‘unprecedented’

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TOM CALLIS Hawaii Tribune-Herald 15 Oct 15; High water temperatures fueled by El Niño are wreaking havoc on East Hawaii’s coral reefs. ...