Best of our wild blogs: 29 Feb 16

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The Kopi Luwak Campaign Life of a common palm civet in Singapore The Jubilee Whale Charity Gala Dinner News from Lee Kong Chian Natura...

S$200 fine for homes found breeding mosquitoes from Mar 14

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The fine, which is currently imposed only when the home is within a dengue cluster, will be expanded to include all places of residence. Na...

Malaysia: Sabah to declare three marine parks as shark sanctuaries

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RUBEN SARIO The Star 28 Feb 16; KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is set to declare three of its marine parks as shark sanctuaries by mid-2016 in a bi...

Malaysia: State govt mulls cloud seeding to combat drought in Tawau

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The Star 28 Feb 16; TAWAU: Cloud seeding will be carried out in Tawau if all other efforts cannot solve the water supply problem in th...

Indonesia: Dozens of hot spots already being detected around the country

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Ina Parlina, The Jakarta Post 28 Feb 16; While a substantial part of Indonesia is still in the wet season, the National Disaster Mitigati...

Indonesia: Jakarta Suburbs Report Heavy Flooding, Landslide

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Vento Saudale Jakarta Globe 28 Feb 16; Jakarta. While Jakarta suffered relatively minor inundations after hours of rain on Sunday (28/02)...

Indonesia: Traditional markets to join pay-per-plastic bag program

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Ni Komang Erviani, The Jakarta Post 29 Feb 16; As modern retailers begin to implement the plastic reduction policy, traditional markets i...

As sea levels rise, economic damage piles up even faster: study

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Alister Doyle Reuters Yahoo News 29 Feb 16; OSLO (Reuters) - As sea levels rise, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, the econom...

Best of our wild blogs: 28 Feb 16

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Keeping hopes high -valuing Singapore’s nature reserves over more infrastructure Nature rambles Towards A Zero-Impact Cross Island Line...

First car-free Sunday launched

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SIAU MING EN Today Online 28 Feb 16; SINGAPORE — The roads around the Civic District and parts of the Central Business District were take...

Malaysia: Kota Kinabalu Wetlands to get Ramsar site status

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RUBEN SARIO The Star 27 Feb 16; KOTA KINABALU: A mangrove area here, one of only two wetlands in the world located within a city, is du...

Malaysia: High number of orphaned elephants cause for worry

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RUBEN SARIO The Star 28 Feb 16; KOTA KINABALU: The increasing number of orphaned baby Borneo elephants being rescued at plantations nea...