Best of our wild blogs: 31 May 19

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Three insights from the forest – Love MacRitchie x BFF walk (11 May 2019) Love our MacRitchie Forest

Otters spotted in Bukit Timah; group fled from Singapore River home due to Bishan otters

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Goh Yan Han Straits Times 30 May 19; SINGAPORE - A group of otters were spotted at a Bukit Timah bus stop on Thursday morning (May 30). ...

From sky farms to lab-grown shrimp, Singapore eyes food future

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John Geddie, Edgar Su Reuters 30 May 19; SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore, the tiny Southeast Asian city-state, is an unlikely place for a...

Ending coal financing, and jump-starting sustainability

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SIMON TAY and LAU XIN YI Business Times 31 May 19; ALL major Singapore banks recently announced that they will stop financing new coal-fi...

Stakeholders share ideas for a zero-waste Singapore

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Vanessa Liu Straits Times 31 May 19; Stakeholders joined forces yesterday to devise ways to boost low recycling rates, which are failing t...

What the 2019 master plan says about Singapore’s approach to land use

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LAI CHOO MALONE-LEE Today Online 29 May 19; According to planning theorists, urban planning is fundamentally a process of rational choice...

APP products could be back in supermarkets, 4 years after being blamed for haze

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KIMBERLY LIM Today Online 30 May 19; SINGAPORE — Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) could see its products sold at major supermarkets agai...

Egg supplier gets S$27 million DBS loan to build farm; conditions apply

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LAUREN ONG Today Online 30 May 19; SINGAPORE — Egg producer Chew's Agriculture has taken up a 10-year, S$27 million loan by DBS, but ...

Malaysia: 'Blanket ban not solution for plastic waste smuggling'

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New Straits Times 29 May 19; KUALA LUMPUR: Hasty calls by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for a blanket ban on so-called “plastics ...

Malaysia: DoE gets tough on e-waste

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sim leoi leoi The Star 30 May 19; PETALING JAYA: The government wants to make it mandatory for consumers to send certain unwanted electri...

Malaysia: Talks underway on safe closure of Johor landfill

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The Star 29 May 19; KLUANG: The Johor government will hold talks with the Federal government to discuss the safe closure of the CEP 1 lan...

Malaysia: Government goes after waste importers

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Dawn Chan New Straits Times 29 May 19; PORT KLANG: Malaysia is putting a stop to the practice of dumping foreign garbage on its soil. F...