Best of our wild blogs: 31 Aug 18

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3rd Link on Pulau Ubin? NO! Wan's Ubin Journal Fires and haze are back in Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short eco-busines...

Malaysia: Water transfer initiative likely for critical Sungai Lebam Dam, says Johor exco

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Malay Mail 30 Aug 18; JOHOR BARU, Aug 30 — The Johor government is likely to carry out a water transfer initiative from its other dams es...

Malaysia: Johor govt mulling third Malaysia-Singapore link

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MOHD FAHMI MOHD YUSOF New Straits Times 30 Aug 18; ISKANDAR PUTERI: The Johor government says it plans to build a third link between Mala...

Trade of coastal sand is damaging wildlife of poorer nations, study finds

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Wealthy nations’ drastic increase in construction sand consumption contributes to erosion of estuaries Patrick Barkham The Guardian 31 Aug...

Do you know what kind of plastics can be recycled? Majority of Singaporeans have no clue

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SIAU MING EN Today Online 30 Aug 18; SINGAPORE — Seven in 10 people in Singapore are not fully certain about the type of plastics that ca...

Malaysia: TARP wildlife under threat by holidaymakers' illegal fishing

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Kristy Inus New Straits Times 30 Aug 18; KOTA KINABALU: The wildlife at Tunku Abdul Rahman Park (TARP) is under serious threat, no thanks...

Malaysia: Land owners to be held responsible for elephant deaths on their land

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Olivia Miwil New Straits Times 30 Aug 18; KOTA KINABALU: No one will be spared from being held liable should elephant killings take place...

Crop losses to pests will soar as climate warms, study warns

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Rising temperatures make insects eat and breed more, leading to food losses growing world population cannot afford, say scientists Damian C...

Wild boar sightings in Punggol not uncommon but rarely a problem: Residents

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Fann Sim Channel NewsAsia 29 Aug 18; SINGAPORE: Despite the wild boar attack on a woman outside Punggol Secondary School on Tuesday (Aug ...

Man fined S$5,000 after bird found stuffed in paper packet at Woodlands Checkpoint

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Channel NewsAsia 29 Aug 18; SINGAPORE: A 43-year-old man has been fined S$5,000 for importing a bird without a licence, said the Agri-Foo...

Malaysia: Female pygmy elephant shot dead in Tongod

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Avila Geraldine New Straits Times 29 Aug 18; KOTA KINABALU: A female Borneo pygmy elephant was shot dead at a plantation in Tongod, rece...

Indonesia: 27 people named suspects in forest fires in W. Kalimantan

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Severianus Endi The Jakarta Post 29 Aug 18; The West Kalimantan Police have named 27 people as suspects in the forest and land fire cases...