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NUS Biodiversity Crew- Birders meet – young David Tan chances upon Ben King in Central Park, New York 15 May 2013
- Donation to university will fund grad student scholarships and honours projects 11 May 2013
- Tea-drinking FTTAs recycle! 9 May 2013
- Registration is now open for LSM4263 – Field Studies in Biodiversity (deadline 07 Jun 2013) 9 May 2013
- Volunteer help with discus fish surveys at Aquarama, 30 May – 02 June 2013 (UK student’s research project) 8 May 2013
- Road resurfacing works from mid-May at Lower Kent Ridge Road 8 May 2013
- Fri 03 May 2013: 3.00pm @ S1A SR: Tang Qian on “Origin and spread of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica” 30 April 2013
- Undergrad part-time field/lab assistants wanted (Apr – Dec 2013) 29 April 2013
- Current research strengths in Environmental Biology (or what the Biodiversity Crew is doing) 25 April 2013
- FTTAs at digital literacy classes! 24 April 2013
- Raffles Museum Toddycats
- Shifting specimens! 15 May 2013
- “Lessons to a child, from Mother Nature” – Toddycat Sean Yap’s relationship with nature 13 May 2013
- Exploring Singapore’s biodiversity – reflections of a Canadian exchange student at NUS 9 May 2013
- Join the Youth for Ecology Dialogues on Saturdays 4, 11 and 18 May 2013: 8 am to 1pm! 3 May 2013
- “Pulau Ubin – facts and discussion” – Tue 30 Apr 2013: 7.00pm – 9.30pm @ NUS LT27 26 April 2013
- The Otter Cycling Trail v2.0 – Of herons, storks, owls, otters and stories galore 26 April 2013
- Otterman speaking at “Our Heritage in Nature” on Sat 11 May 2013: 9am-12:30pm (updated: free admission!) 16 April 2013
- Programme details for our gig in June – “Science on Saturday” for NUS FoS alumni 4 April 2013
- Calendar 2013 27 March 2013
- Faces of the collection – photos from the Raffles Museum Last Hurrah! tours 21 March 2013
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Kiss, Kill and Tell: Diversification of assassin bugs and the evolution of blood-feeding (by Wei Song Hwang)
Click on image to download pdf. Kiss, Kill and Tell: Diversification of assassin bugs and the evolution of blood-feeding Wei Song Hwang Graduate Student Entomology Department University of California, USA Assassin bugs (Reduviidae, Heteroptera, Hemiptera) are one of the most … Continue reading
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West targets fin consumers unfairly; Shark’s fin here safe to eat: AVA (The Straits Times Forum, Friday 22 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. SHARK CONSUMPTION West targets fin consumers unfairly THE June 12 article (“Scientists protest against trade in shark fin “) described a recent petition. The petition was also presented earlier to legislators in Hong Kong … Continue reading
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At the rate we’re going, we’ll need 1.5 Earths to sustain humanity … (Today Friday 22 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. At the rate we’re going; we’ll need 1.5 Earths to sustain humanity … June Yang What does that mean? Singapore – The Living Planet 2012 report, released last week by the WWF, noted that … Continue reading
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Sterilise wild boars, don’t cull them; Snapped in the neighbourhood; Periodic culling important (The Straits Times Forum, Wednesday 20 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. Sterilise wild boars, don’t cull them IT IS reassuring that the National Parks Board (NParks) will take a holistic approach towards managing the wild boar population (“NParks defends wild boar decision” and “Why wild … Continue reading
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NParks defends wild boar decision (The Straits Times, Saturday 16 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. NParks defends wild boar decision Evidence of environment being damaged, says parks body By Feng Zengkun THE National Parks Board has come out to defend its decision to manage the wild boar population in … Continue reading
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Why wild boars have to be culled (The Straits Times Forum, Saturday 16 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. Why wild boars have to be culled They destroy forests WE TAKE a holistic approach in managing the growing population of wild boars (“Culling wild boar not the answer” by Ms Irene Low, Wednesday; … Continue reading
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The 2009 Bibliography of the Biodiversity of Singapore
Stacey Tan et al. has compiled the 2009 Bibliography of the Biodiversity of Singapore. The book is now available for download. [PDF, 850 KB]
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Singapore Seagrass Workshop (by Siti Maryam Yaakub)
Click on image to download pdf. Singapore Seagrass Workshop Date: Monday, 02 July 2012 Time: 8.30am – 6.00pm Venue: DBS Conference Room Blk S3 Level 5 (#05-01) Conducted by: Siti Maryam Yaakub, Experimental Marine Ecology Lab Dept. Biological Sciences, NUS … Continue reading
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Surprise discovery in the Arctic (The Straits Times, Monday 18 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. Surprise discovery in the Arctic By Michael Richardson For the Straits Times Two years ago, a Canadian research team alarmed climate scientists when it published the results of a survey of the oceans, the … Continue reading
Green thoughts inspired by Stockholm and Rio (The Straits Times, Saturday 16 June 2012)
Click on image to download pdf. Green thoughts inspired by Stockholm and Rio How far has the world come in creating awareness of the environment? By Tommy Koh For the Straits Times In 1972, the United Nations convened the historic … Continue reading
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