Best of our wild blogs: 25 Feb 16

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Environment Conservation Activity: OBS Project IsLand-A-Hand, 5 March 2016 Green Drinks Singapore

Malaysia: Alarm over elephant inbreeding

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MUGUNTAN VANAR The Star 25 Feb 16; KOTA KINABALU: Poor connectivity between Sabah’s forests may put the future of its Bornean elephant ...

Indonesia: Some 19 hotspots detected on Sumatra island

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Antara 24 Feb 16; Pekanbaru, Riau (ANTARA News) - A total of 19 hotspots were detected in three provinces on Sumatra Island on Wednesday,...

Indonesia: Severe dengue spreads across regions, claims lives

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Agus Maryono, Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, and Lita Aruperes, The Jakarta Post 25 Feb 16; Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) continues to spread, ...

Indonesia: Jakarta withdraws from plastic bag charge program

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Dewanti A. Wardhani, The Jakarta Post 25 Feb 16; The Jakarta administration has withdrawn from the national policy requiring stores to ch...

Carbon emission cuts only way to save coral from acid seas: study

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Alister Doyle, Reuters Yahoo News 25 Feb 16; OSLO (Reuters) - Corals under threat from acid seas can only be saved by deep cuts in carbon...

Best of our wild blogs: 24 Feb 16

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Food Waste Training Workshop for Wastebusters Zero Waste Singapore

Extra $2bn for Cross Island Line to skirt nature reserve likely to be fraction of total cost: Experts

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Zhaki Abdullah Straits Times 24 Feb 16; also in AsiaOne The additional $2 billion that will be incurred by building the proposed Cross Is...

No lack of youth with idealism

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Straits Times Forum 24 Feb 16; I disagree that Singapore's youth lack idealism, because there are many young people doing all kinds o...

NEA to step up efforts to tackle rat problem

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Chitra Kumar, Straits Times AsiaOne 24 Feb 16; Singapore's rat problem is showing no signs of letting up. About 6,700 complaints...

New dengue cases spike after 3 weeks of decline

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The number of dengue cases reported in Singapore rose to 594 last week, up from the 419 cases reported in the previous week, according to th...

Malaysia: Forestry dept awaiting A-G’s nod to prosecute over 100 illegal logging cases

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SHARON LING The Star 24 Feb 16; KUCHING: The Forestry Department here is awaiting the Attorney-General’s go ahead to prosecute over 10...