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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
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