Best of our wild blogs: 23 Sep 16

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Of Vipers and Vivipary Herpetological Society of Singapore

Indonesia forest fires well-managed, fewer hotspots this year: Minister

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Saifulbahri Ismail Channel NewsAsia 22 Sep 16; JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar has said that t...

Indonesia: Floods, landslides leave 23 dead

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Ina Parlina, Agus Maryono and Rizal Harahap The Jakarta Post 22 Sep 16; Heavy rains, arguably caused by the La Niña weather phenomenon th...

Indonesia: C. Java farmers insure crops against losses during natural calamities

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Suherdjoko The Jakarta Post 22 Sep 16; In their effort to prevent losses during unforeseen disasters, 88,492 paddy farmers in Central Jav...

Indonesia: President Jokowi wants simpler forestry procedures

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Jakarta Post 22 Sep 16; President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has urged Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar to simplify social ...

Indonesia: 2.5 years sought for ivory traders in Riau

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Rizal Harahap The Jakarta Post 22 Sep 16; Prosecutors have demanded two-and-a-half years' imprisonment for five ivory traders in Peka...

Indonesia: Conservation Efforts for Critically Endangered Rhinos Not Enough to Save Them - WWF Indonesia

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Ratri M. Siniwi Jakarta Globe 22 Sep 16; Jakarta. The World Wildlife Fund has slammed conservation efforts to save Javan and Sumatran rh...

Thailand: Reclaiming mangroves for shrimp production

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Communities in Thailand turn to restoring degraded mangrove forests to grow and harvest clean shrimp. Laura Villadiego Aljazeera 22 Sep 16...

100 countries push to phase out potentially disastrous greenhouse gas

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Hydrofluorocarbons, commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioning systems, could add 0.5C to global temperatures by the end of the cen...

Paris climate goal will be 'difficult if not impossible to hit'

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Top scientists meeting in Oxford this week say they see few scenarios that would meet the Paris target to limit temperature rise to 1.5C Ag...

Global coral bleaching event might become new normal, expert warns

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Bleaching may be standard by 2020s says leading reef researcher as new images show the damage to areas around Japanese islands of Okinawa M...

Best of our wild blogs: 22 Sep 16

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The last, and a soon to be lost countryside The Long and Winding Road