Best of our wild blogs: 1 Mar 18

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17-18 Mar: 'The Fun Odyssea' - community launch for kids and the family Celebrating Singapore Shores!

Parliament: National recycling effort collected 2 per cent of total domestic waste in 2016

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Audrey Tan Straits Times 28 Feb 18; SINGAPORE - A national recycling effort collected just 2 per cent of the total amount of waste genera...

Carbon tax a conscientious approach for a sustainable future

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Where the announced carbon tax rate at Budget 2018 has seen a downward revision from a previously mentioned range, two experts discuss the m...

121 live birds, 4,500 sachets of chewing tobacco seized from tour bus at Woodlands

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LOW YOUJIN Today Online 28 Feb 18; SINGAPORE – An attempt to smuggle 121 live birds and 4,500 sachets of chewing tobacco was foiled by im...

Indonesia: Government to relax forest moratorium for military installations

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Anton Hermansyah The Jakarta Post 28 Feb 18; The government is planning to revise a 2017 presidential regulation on forest moratorium to ...

Total ban on bee-harming pesticides likely after major new EU analysis

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Analysis from EU’s scientific risk assessors finds neonicotinoids pose a serious danger to all bees, making total field ban highly likely D...

Parliament: Singapore adopts three-pronged approach to deal with wildlife trafficking

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Audrey Tan Straits Times 28 Feb 18; SINGAPORE - The Government has a three-pronged strategy to deter wildlife trafficking at Singapore...

Malaysia: 45 tunnels to save pristine forests

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mazwin nik anis The Star 28 Feb 18; PUTRAJAYA: Only 216ha of forest will be cleared to make way for the 688km East Coast Rail Link (ECRL)...

Indonesia: Bears handed over to Riau conservation authority

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Rizal Harahap The Jakarta Post 27 Feb 18; Worried about the legal sanctions he might face for keeping a protected species, Adi, 28, a res...

North Atlantic right whales may face extinction after no new births recorded

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Declining fertility and rising mortality, exacerbated by fishing industry, prompts experts to warn whales could be extinct by 2040 Joanna W...

More than 100 cities now mostly powered by renewable energy, data shows

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The number of cities getting at least 70% of their total electricity supply from renewable energy has more than doubled since 2015 Elle Hun...

Arctic warming: scientists alarmed by 'crazy' temperature rises

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Record warmth in the Arctic this month could yet prove to be a freak occurrence, but experts warn the warming event is unprecedented Jonath...