Singapore one of few remaining strongholds for endangered songbird

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NEO CHAI CHIN Today Online 9 Dec 16; SINGAPORE — The Republic can play a crucial role in conserving a songbird called the Straw-headed bu...

Malaysia: Record number of staghorn corals identified in Sabah

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MUGUNTAN VANAR The Star 9 Dec 16; KOTA KINABALU: About 70% of the world’s staghorn corals which provide habitat and food for many marine ...

Malaysia: Sabah government should release rhino conservation funds - Musa Hitam

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STEPHANIE LEE The Star 8 Dec 16; KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government should release federal funds meant for the conservation of the state...

Malaysia: Getting behind the 'Save the Sun Bear Campaign'

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ELENA KOSHY New Straits Times 8 Dec 16; While efforts are made to rescue, rehabilitate and release sun bears into the wild, their prospec...

Malaysia: Malacca reclamation - Weigh socio-economic gains against ecological losses, authorities urged

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ARNAZ M. KHAIRUL New Straits Times 8 Dec 16; MALACCA: The long-term effect of land reclamation could be felt by the masses as marine-base...

Indonesia: Floods, landslides leave thousands displaced

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Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Ganug Nugroho Adi, and Agus Maryono The Jakarta Post Jakarta Post 8 Dec 16; Bad weather has continued to hit regio...

Indonesia: Nearly 100 killed, hundreds hurt as quake strikes Aceh

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Reuters 7 Dec 16; Nearly 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in Indonesia on Wednesday when a strong earthquake hit its Aceh prov...

Giraffes, rarer than elephants, put on extinction watch list

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SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Yahoo News 8 Dec 16; WASHINGTON (AP) — The giraffe, the tallest land animal, is now at risk of extinctio...

Best of our wild blogs: 8 Dec 16

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Sungei Buloh Wetlands 23 Anniversary Art in Wetlands

Malaysia, Malacca: Faced with rapid erosion, residents want to see master plan of reclamation project

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New Straits Times 7 Dec 16; MALACCA: Is Malacca’s future, particularly that along its storied coastline, one that is bereft of its trad...

Malaysia: ‘No oil palm on swampy land’

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SARBAN SINGH The Star 8 Dec 16; SEREMBAN: Negri Sembilan, a major palm oil producing state, will no longer allow the palm to be grown i...

Malaysia: MMEA seizes 1,400 tortoises

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MUGUNTAN VANAR The Star 8 Dec 16; KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian coastguards intercepted a boat and rescued 1,400 tor­toises that were being ...