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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
Not long ago, communities living around Indonesia's Poayato Paguat forests hunted hornbills for food and used their casques as talismans and decorations in their homes. Today, these communities are on the frontline in...
Researchers celebrate breeding success in South Korea for the Chinese Crested Tern – a bird once thought extinct. Decoy model birds have helped bolster the new colony, and the species has been spotted in Japan for the...
How are the Tharu community helping to protect their lake and the rare birds that live there? Why not visit them and find out! Thanks to an innovative homestay programme, wildlife lovers the world over are flocking to...
In the Philippines, the Rufous-headed Hornbill has been driven to the brink of extinction by hunting and deforestation. But thanks to a new project, it is celebrated among local people, and has kicked off a movement to...
