Archive for the ‘Conservation’ Category
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Borneo has amazing birdlife, and the inaugural Sabah Birdwatching Festival would be a great opportunity to learn something about them.
Contact Symbiosis Expedition Planning about making a trip to attend the show next month and perhaps trekking into the forests to look for some birds yourself!
See poster below:
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Most White-Shouldered Ibis Ever Recorded in Cambodia A record number of the critically endangered white-shouldered Ibis have been counted in Cambodia, Birdlife International said yesterday. Bou Vorsak, Birdlife's Cambodia Acting Programme Manager, said 429 of the birds were counted simultaneously at 37 roost sites in five provinces across the ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
How you can participate, go to Project Aware website
International Cleanup Day is 25 September. This massive volunteer event is the largest of its kind, when underwater teams of volunteer divers in more than 100 countries tackle marine debris issues head on.
For info on how you can participate, go to Project ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Letter from Jennifer Lee 05:55 AM Aug 10, 2010
ABOUT two weeks ago, a concerned Hong Kong citizen saw a Citibank (Hong Kong) promotion advertising discounted shark's fins.
Read the full article in today's Today Online.
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Malaysia is renowned for its wonderful marine world and nearly half a million divers come here every year to admire some of the world’s most popular diving sites. The attention is fantastic as it helps raise awareness of some of the problems associated with global warming, yet on the other ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Started at the end of 2009 the Elephant Hills Elephant Experience is just that, a chance to get close to these amazing creatures, feel their thick skin and interact with them during one of our unique experiences. Chop, prepare and feed the elephants one of their daily feeds, learn about ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
The 2m-long reptile is a monitor lizard, the group to which the world's longest and largest lizards belong.
The monitor, described as spectacular by the scientists who found it, lives in forests covering the Sierra Madre mountains in the north of the country.
The striking reptile has bright yellow, blue and green ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Two critically endangered vultures were released into the wild last week in Stoeung Treng's Siem Pang district after the birds were found poisoned earlier in the month.
The birds, one white-rumped vulture and one slender-billed vulture, were nursed back to health after 2 weeks at the Phnom Tama0 Wildelife Rescue Centre ...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
The Angkor Butterfly Centre (ABC) is an interactive butterfly exhibit located 25 km north of Siem Reap, home to Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat, on the road to the Landmine Museum and Bantey Srei temple.
The exhibit consists of a netted tropical garden with hundreds of free-flying butterflies, all of which are ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Manolo Serapio Jr., Reuters
Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:23pm EST
MANILA (Reuters) - Revenue from a small hydropower plant that cost little more than a supercar to build, will help preserve 2,000-year-old Philippine rice terraces dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World," conservationists say.
Read more…
Visit the stunning rice terraces of northern Philippines ...
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Jakarta, Indonesia – Camera traps deep in the Sumatran jungle have captured first-time images of a rare female tiger and her cubs, giving researchers unique insight into the elusive tiger’s behaviour. Read more on the WWF website on this story.
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Here is a message from Rex Summer, founder of Force for the Forest, a non-profit conservation organisation in Indonesia fighting to preserve the rainforest and its invaluable ecosystem that supports rare species including orangutan, Sumtran Rhinoscerous and elephant, and Sumatran Tiger amongst much more. This is a message of hope ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
I recently visited a community deep in the Cardomom Mountains, western Cambodia that, until recently existed to plunder the rainforest of trees and wildlife.
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Chi Phat is a former logging community a 2 hour boat trip up river from the newly refurbished road linking ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Users may think ecstasy is a drug of peace and love, but every tablet they take plays a part in destroying Cambodia's pristine Cardamom mountains and puts the lives of those fighting for the environment at risk, reports Bronwyn Sloan..
Read this revealing article here
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