January 2012
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Extreme mouth-sewing protest in Indonesia leads to...
A protest in which 28 Indonesian sewed their mouths shut has led to an inquiry into a logging concession on Padang Island. The Ministry of Forestry has formed a mediation team to look into the controversial concession, reports Kompas. Around a hundred natives of Padang Island rallied for weeks against the logging concession held by PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP), which covers 37 percent of...
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Mad as a Marine Biologist: Singapore's anti-Shark... →
mad-as-a-marine-biologist:
Guys, guys, guys! It’s seriously exciting in Singapore right now!
After a seafood supplier’s completely unprofessional employee wrote this on their facebook page (read more here):
“Screw the divers! Shark’s fin & Mola Mola will be launched at NTUC Fairprice outlets during CNY 2012!”
Singapore’s major supermarket chain denounced them as a supplier AND has...
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Fairprice make a stand against irresponsible...
As you may have heard Thern Da Seafood angered many people this week in Singapore and world with their online comment “Screw the divers! Sharks fin and mola mola will be launched at all NTUC fairprice outlets during CNY 2012”.
Fairprice have seen the light and released this coment:
Thank you everyone for your comments and for alerting us to this matter. As a standing instruction, all...
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OK so I know I have been rubbish recently. Unfortunately I got disheartened…but that’s gone now. With some conversations with sam (mad as a marine biologist) about how nail art is more popular on tumblr than conservation I have decided to return!!
I STILL BELIEVE!
November 2011
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Sick of all the doom and gloom?
Check out our new collaborative blog GOOD CONSERVATION NEWS where you can get news on all the success stories to do with the natural world.
Contributors:
Sam @ mad-as-a-marine-biologist
Tara @ sexyactionplanet
Ang @ take-nothing-but-photos
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Amazing measures taken by south african conservationists!
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October 2011
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What was the world population the day you were...
benvironment:
Thanks to a nifty interactive page on the Guardian website, you can now find out. And it’s quite sobering if like me you’re approaching middle age, as the population has almost doubled.
According to their page, the day I was born the world’s population was 3,953,229,890. It is now 7 billion. It’s insane. Insane I tell you!
Enter your birth date and see what the world...
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Greenpeace says it has uncovered evidence of JBS breaking its 2009 commitment on...
– World’s largest beef company breaks commitment on avoiding Amazon deforestation (via stopkillingourworld)
1 Million Migrating Songbirds are Killed for... →
feathersandbeaks:
Every year trappers in Cyprus kill millions of migrating songbirds that are boiled or pickled – a national delicacy called ambelopoulia. Wildlife conservationists want authorities there to do more to prevent this “ecological disaster.”
One songbird is illegally trapped or killed every four seconds to provide residents of Cyprus with ingredients for a dish called ambelopoulia,...
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Well Libya looks like all of the international community will be jumping ship after the footage of a human being slaughtered in the street emerge. Don’t worry I’m sure we will be back for your oil
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September 2011
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I'm off on my new adventure to the Middle East so...
oh and rygbi cymraeag am byth!
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Chemical Makes Rhino Horns Toxic
A South African game reserve has developed a treatment for rhino horns that is safe for the animals but causes convulsions and headaches to people who consume them, a wildlife group said Wednesday.
The potion is a mixture of drugs used to kill parasites on the rhinos, and includes a dye that turns even finely ground horns neon pink when seen by airport scanners, Rhino and Lion Reserve...
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Dalai Lama urges Obama not to approve Keystone...
benvironment:
I don’t think anyone saw this one coming……but His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the latest high profile critic of the Keystone Pipeline.
He is one of a group of nine Nobel Peace Laureates (including Archbishop Desmond Tutu) who have written a letter to President Obama, urging him to honour the environmental pledges he made back in 2008 and reject the Keystone extension.
See...
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trouble in lemur land: A movie
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