http://www.greenkampong.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:12:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/officials-scramble-to-save-endangered-javan-rhinos/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/officials-scramble-to-save-endangered-javan-rhinos/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:18:09 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3627 The discovery of three dead Javan rhinos has intensified efforts to save one of the world’s most endangered mammals from extinction, with an electric fence being built Monday around a new sanctuary and breeding ground. With only about 50 of the species left in the wild — all but a handful living in one national [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/officials-scramble-to-save-endangered-javan-rhinos/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/the-cove-to-screen-in-japan-despite-protests/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/the-cove-to-screen-in-japan-despite-protests/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:13:32 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3625 Initial screenings of the film at three other theaters were canceled after protests by nationalist groups. Those theaters still have no plans to show “The Cove,” which shows bloody scenes of a dolphin slaughter filmed by hidden cameras and portrays local fishermen as rough goons. The cancellations prompted a group of Japanese journalists, academics and [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/the-cove-to-screen-in-japan-despite-protests/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/rare-borneo-pygmy-elephant-dies-after-2-week-struggle/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/rare-borneo-pygmy-elephant-dies-after-2-week-struggle/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:29:27 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3603 An endangered Borneo pygmy elephant lost its struggle for survival after it was rescued two weeks ago. “She had perforated ulcers in the intestines. It was a tough fight for survival,” Wildlife Department chief senior field veterinarian Dr Sen Nathan said Friday. The orphaned two-year-old female calf died of severe internal bleeding at the Lok [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/rare-borneo-pygmy-elephant-dies-after-2-week-struggle/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/dredging-destroying-pygmy-elephant-monkey-habitat/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/dredging-destroying-pygmy-elephant-monkey-habitat/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:25:50 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3601 Sand dredging in a Borneo wildlife sanctuary is threatening the habitats of endangered pygmy elephants and a rare species of monkey, Malaysian activists said Thursday. Sand-laden barges were once again moving up and down rivers in the Kinabatangan wildlife sanctuary in Sabah state on Borneo island, despite having previously been stopped, they said. via Dredging [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/dredging-destroying-pygmy-elephant-monkey-habitat/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/travel/singapore%e2%80%99s-trash-lives-in-paradise/ http://www.greenkampong.com/travel/singapore%e2%80%99s-trash-lives-in-paradise/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:35:11 +0000 Kelly Wu http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3330 Previously, I never thought about discussing anything on Singapore’s waste disposal system on Green Kampong. My assumption then was that most of this stuff is common knowledge. That was until I told a friend I was going to Pulau Semakau and received a blank look and a sheepish “Umm… where’s that?” reply. I tried my [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/travel/singapore%e2%80%99s-trash-lives-in-paradise/feed/ 4