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• Scottish Tax Payers ‘Pay-into’ Norwegian Owned Fish Farm Profits

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Investigations into the shot seal incident, reported by a family of four holidaying on the west coast and covered by ForArgyll, has revealed some interesting facts. One of which is that every tax payer in Argyll, indeed Scotland, is actually helping to boost fish farm profits - that’s fish farms owned [...]
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• Acid Groups, Farmers Collaborate to Re-Green Sahel

  
  Worldchanging: Bright Green — Authority: 646
  Ben Block: Disastrous droughts crippled Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali in the early 1970s and more severely in the early 1980s. More than 100,000 people died....
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• Green-eyed monster

  
  The annotated budak — Authority: 121
  Slender skimmer , Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
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• Always look at the butter side of life

  
  The annotated budak — Authority: 121
  There are no knights in shining armour this days. Only small, fragile creatures that flutter by and sip the juicier parts of bushes in bloom. Too fleet for capture, they refuse to rein in their drunken flight and pause only to shed the sad little seeds of a marriage that lasted for but a long, brief moment. ...
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• Nightcaps

  
  The annotated budak — Authority: 121
  I wish I had some magic mushrooms. Just a handful of fruiting fungal bodies that glow in the gloom of a damp, cool night and cast a pixie spell through a trail too short for satiation. And mere caps of mycorrhizal exuberance that gleam through the grass as painted frogs hop away in rude splashes. The air is ...
  15 hours ago

• £52k award for Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network – and a job

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Well deserved support has come to the energetic Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN). It has been awarded a funding package worth £52,000 to help support its initiative in gathering data on species of sharks, skates and rays found in Scottish waters. Many of these species are now endangered. The funding ...
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• Coral erodes off Taiwan as divers take it home

  
  Environment — Authority: 528
  Taiwan tourists are destroying a piece of exactly what they travel to see on an outlying mid-Pacific islet known — at least at one time — for its abundant coral reefs. A pair of Taiwan environmental groups that marshaled 56 people to check the coral supply near Orchid Island, which is southeast of Taiwan proper, ...
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• Mull’s PC Finlay Christine wins top RSPB award

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  A man who has played a signal role in the Mull Eagle Watch project, protecting the awesome white-tailed sea eagles established there at the Loch Frisa Eagle Hide is PC Finlay Christine.PC Christine, who has recently retired as Mull & Iona’s police officer, has been awarded one of the RSPB’s top awards - a ...
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• Nigers giraffes stage a comeback

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Martin Plaut, BBC News 8 Nov 09;The giraffe population of Niger, which was on the verge of extinction just 10 years ago, is now on the rise and moving into new habitats.From a herd of 50 animals, careful conservation supported by Nigers government has seen their numbers rise to around 200.Once, thousands of giraffes ...
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• Bats not the bad guys

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Australian Biosecurity CRC, Science Alert 9 Nov 09;Hendra has given bats a bad name. Understandable given Hendra virus has killed people and horses, and scientists have discovered that Hendra virus is carried by bats. But it’s not all the bats’ fault.“Flying-foxes or fruit bats are large, very mobile animals ...
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• Putting a price tag on nature’s services – new book

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  IUCN 9 Nov 09;Cutting-edge science and striking photography are combined in a new book about ecosystem services, biodiversity and human well-being.Placing a financial value on the services and goods that nature provides is critical to guarantee that ecosystems stay healthy and continue to provide the benefits that all ...
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• Obama slower than Bush in protecting Americas endangered species

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  In George W. Bushs eight years as president, he placed 62 species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), an average of eight species per year. While, Bushs slow pace in protecting endangered species frustrated environmentalists in light of continued decline among many species, Obama is moving even ...
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• Beijing Assesses Green Travel Destinations

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 477
  The Beijing Tourism Administration has recently published a document called "Assessment Criteria for a Beijing Eco-leisure Tourism Zone" to better delineate criteria for green travel destinations.According to the document, eco-leisure tourism zone refers to a special tourism agglomeration area of not less than 100 ...
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• Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...
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• Studies overstate species risks

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  Some large-scale computer simulations may be overestimating the impact of climate change on biodiversity in some regions, researchers have suggested.
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• Westminster move to force GM food crops into Scotland

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Moves afoot at Westminster to strip the Scottish Government of its powers over labelling food and content are motivated by the intention to force more genetically modified (GM) food crops into being grown here.A million pound publicity campaign is being mounted to persuade the public that GM foods are safe to eat.In ...
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• Is man on course to cause the sixth extinction?

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 511
  At first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million dollars for a book about dead animals – or, to be more precise, extinct animals. Nevertheless the subject of eradicated species has become publishing hot property after a bidding battle in the US saw Henry ...
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• Protected zones will help to save Britain’s marine wildlife

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 511
  An exotic underwater world of seahorses, sharks and corals that surrounds the coast of Britain is to be given greater protection under new legislation coming into force this week. The long-awaited Marine Act will allow conservation groups to map sites of nature preservation for the first time. Future legislation to ...
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• Southeast Sulawesi deer population dwindles

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  The Jakarta Post 7 Nov 09;The population of deer (Cervus timorensis) in the Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park (TNRAW) in Southeast Sulawesi has declined significantly in the last 16 years, a member of park management staff says.The number of deer at the park was now less than 1,000 from around 33,000 in 1993, ...
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• Prized mushroom collection returns to China

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  David Wivell, Associated Press Yahoo News 7 Nov 09;BEIJING – A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.At a ceremony at the Chinese Academy of ...
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