Sabah government refutes Zoo Negara claim

Good to know that some governments have common sense. Well done Sabah. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said that it would be irresponsible to relocate the state’s iconic wildlife such as the proboscis monkeys, Borneo pygmy elephants and orang utan. “Moving them elsewhere will compromise the animals’ survival chances outside their [...]

Photography seminar with Mattias Klum

Held in conjunction with Month of Photography Asia 2010, this exhibition by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum is a powerful and revealing testimony of the devastation of Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which are among the oldest and most biologically diverse in the world. Forest-dwelling people, such as the Penan have depended on Borneo’s rainforests for [...]

Channel Newsasia makes a meal of a vulnerable species of fish

Our very own Channel Newsasia ignores the fact that the Giant Garoupa or Queensland Grouper was put on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2006, and instead celebrates the story of a restaurateur who bought one this week and is selling it to customers at $20 per 200g. via Channel NewsAsia: The owner of [...]

Crocs snap back from the brink

The population of saltwater crocodiles in Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei has increased dramatically in the past decade that they could be removed from the endangered list. The positive development was due to the respective governments implementing management plans to save the once severely depleted wild population of crocodiles. Read more at The Star.

Polar Bear Overseer: Few Tools to Stop Melting Ice

Polar bear policy in America can be summed up succinctly: The iconic bears are threatened with extinction, and so far nothing much is being done. Two years after they were listed under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken no major action in response to their principal threat, the loss [...]

Organic food cafe owner most Gaia-friendly person

The winner is 42-year-old Christina Hardie. She said: “I read all the Hemisphere magazines that were in there (the room), did all the crossword puzzles and word searches. You feel a little bit like a hamster in a cage. Some chaps came up and asked me to turn the fan on, and I said, ‘I’m [...]

Fresher and smellier

Would you like some poo with your garlic? If not, ask where it comes from. And if you don’t like it, grow your own. Bell also calls into question some growing practices in China. “I know for a fact that some garlic growers over there use raw human sewage to fertilise their crops, and I [...]