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Chagos Islands: Imperialism with an environmental face

By Graham Land Wed, May 23, 2012 9:04AM UTC View Comments

The Chagos Archipelago is a group of over 60 islands located in the Indian Ocean some 500km (310 miles) south of the Maldives. The isolated location of the islands resulted in a unique ecology and culture. It was also deemed strategic by the US and UK militaries. In 1965 the UK bought the Chagos and...

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Campaign to preserve Singapore’s Chinese cemetery pushes on

By Kirsten Han Tue, Mar 20, 2012 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Develop or preserve? That is a question that is always asked in Singapore, a densely-populated country with very little space to make use of. With a government that has always opted for the most “pragmatic” response, the answer has often been to develop. But when the government first announced plans to demolish a part of...

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Twitter saves ‘Happy Feet’ in Phillip Island

By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Sun, Sep 25, 2011 9:40AM UTC View Comments

Phillip Island, Victoria’s iconic spot for tiny penguins, is scaring away urban developers in style. The key is celebrity power and Twitter. After Hollywood star Miley Cyrus joined the protest to drive away urban developers from rezoning the farming town of Ventnor into a residential area, the Ministry of Planning who spearheaded the project began...

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India’s tiger population up, but habitat under threat

By Shayoni Sarkar Tue, Mar 29, 2011 12:03AM UTC View Comments

A twenty percent increase has been noted in wild tigers in India in the latest tiger census. This is the first time that the whole of India has been surveyed by the census. With an astonishing increase from the last census in 2007 which recorded 1,411 tigers, this year’s figures show 1,706 in India’s wild....

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