Best of our wild blogs: 10 Aug 16

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Happy birthday Singapore! From 90 volunteers who celebrated with a mangrove cleanup! News from the International Coastal Cleanup Singapor...

Pandan flats swarmed by midges nightly

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My Paper 10 Aug 16; PESKY: Although they do not bite or spread diseases, the midges are a nuisance to the residents. Residents at thre...

Malaysia: Landowners in Sarawak to be responsible for fires on their land

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STEPHEN THEN The Star 9 Aug 16; MIRI: Landowners will be held wholly accountable for haze and air pollution resulting from fires on their...

Malaysia: Two men arrested with bear paws, teeth and gall bladders in their possession

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ROY GOH New Straits Times 9 Aug 16; KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Wildlife Department rangers yesterday arrested two men and made a gruesome find ...

China to spend US$65 billion to improve water supplies: Ministry

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Channel NewsAsia 9 Aug 16; SHANGHAI: China plans to spend a total of 430 billion yuan (US$65 billion) on around 4,800 separate projects ...

We’re trashing the oceans — and they’re returning the favor by making us sick

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Chris Mooney The Washington Post 8 Aug 16; Six years ago, in a bracing TED talk, coral reef scientist Jeremy Jackson laid out “how we wre...

Best of our wild blogs: 9 Aug 16

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Celebrating National Day with dolphin sightings! wild shores of singapore

National Day Special 2016: Native fauna in an urban jungle

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Otters, leopard cats and some 500-plus species of local birds, mammals 
and reptiles are starting to be discovered, appreciated and protecte...

Indonesia: High Risk of Forest Fires With 173 Hotspots Reported in Sumatra

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Ratri M. Siniwi & Almira Shae Jakarta Globe 8 Aug 16; Jakarta. The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, or BMKG,...

Cambodia: Illegal logging still threatens its forests despite ban on timber exports

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Pichayada Promchertchoo Channel NewsAsia 8 Aug 16; Thousands of tonnes of natural forest wood still crossed the border into Vietnam, even...

'Alarming' bleaching of Maldives corals: conservationists

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AFP Yahoo News 8 Aug 16; Coral reefs in the Maldives are under severe stress after suffering mass bleaching this year as sea temperatures...

World’s longest lake is being depleted of life as waters warm

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Maina Waruru New Scientist 8 Aug 16; Loss of biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika, Africa’s oldest and deepest lake, has been driven by 500 ye...