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31 Dec 2010
New edition of The Babbler now online
By Martin Fowlie
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:
Comment• 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
This 2017 Nature's Heroes, nominated by Bird Conservation Nepal, pioneered safe feeding areas which have led to the beginning of a recovery in populations of threatened vultures.
The 11 women who make up the committee of Dumrithumka Adarsh Mahila Community Forest User Group—2017 Nature's Heroes—have changed their community's attitude towards the forest they all depend on.
Dasho Paljor Dorji (Dasho Benji)—often referred to as the Godfather of conservation in Bhutan—has been named one of Nature's Heroes by Bhutan's Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN).
Hendrikus Habur—2017 Nature's Heroes—is a birdwatching guide who has developed ecotourism around his local IBA into a source of improved livelihoods for his entire community.
