New edition of The Babbler now online

Fri, Dec 31, 2010

You can now access the 36th edition (October – December, 2010) of The Babbler, the quarterly newsletter of BirdLife International in Indochina online at http://birdlifeindochina.org/content/babbler

In this edition:

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•   Features: Critical ecosystems in Indochina
•   Regional News:
- Vietnam’s planned sale of tiger “paste” protested
- Historic tiger summit closes with plans to secure more financial backing
- Biodiversity and development of the hydropower sector: Lessons from the Vietnamese experience
- Tyrants, tycoon and tigers
- First confirmed Saola record in over ten years
- Vietnam’s soft conservation policies hard on tigers
- South African police seize rhino horn from Vietnamese
- A new species of crested gibbon from the central Annamite mountain range
- New snub-nosed monkey discovered in Northern Myanmar
•   IBA News
- BirdLife and Forestry Administration secure designation Sarus Crane
reserve at Kampong Trach IBA
- Secret titanium mine threatens Cambodia’s most untouched forest
- Road work threatens national park Vietnam
•   Rarest of the rare: Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
•    Project Updates
•   Review
•   Profile: Trinh Le Nguyen-Localising conservation in Vietnam
•   Obituary: Lim Kannitha
•   Staff News
•   Photo Spot
•   From the Archives