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Animal Welfare News & Blogs - Year 2009
Instantly update yourself on the latest animal welfare developments. Leading animal shelters and rescuers will share news and knowledge with you, consolidated through their blogs and social media pages.
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Article: Hawkers Sold On Idea Of Soap From Used Oil
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By TAN SIN CHOW EVER imagined that cooking oil used for fried chicken, pisang goreng or yau char kuai (Chinese crullers) could be turned into cash? That is exactly what roadside hawkers, restaurant and food court operators in Seberang Prai are doing at the moment — they are making money by selling their used cooking oil to private companies which then use the oil to make soap bars. Penang executive councillor Phee Boon Poh said each kilogram...
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Article: Mushrooming Business
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 By C.A. ZULKIFLE THE door to a hut opens to reveal rows and rows of bottles lined up neatly on wooden racks. Inside each of these bottles is a growing mushroom which, in time, will poke its little head out the mouth of the bottle and bloom like a bright-coloured flower. This is how Zulkifli Mohamad, 36, cultivates his Ganoderma mushroom at his house compound in Panji in Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan. He grows mushrooms in 30,000 bottles inside the...
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Article: Fresh From The Rivers
14th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Friday August 14, 2009 Eating Out:By TAN KARR WEI FRESHWATER fish caught in rivers are less likely to have that muddy taste that many discerning gourmets associate it with. "Fish that is reared in ponds tend to have that muddy taste because of the stagnant water. Even sea- water fish reared in ponds could have that taste. The quality of the fish also depends on the type of food it eats," said Empurau Fish Restaurant director James Wong. Wong, who also supplies f...
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Article: Skywatchers To See Streaking Meteors
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Wednesday August 12, 2009 MYT 2:10:00 PMLOS ANGELES (AP) - The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a dazzling sky show. Astronomers say up to 100 meteors per hour are expected to streak across the sky during the shower's peak. In North America, the best time to watch is before dawn Wednesday. The Perseid shower occurs every summer when the Earth's orbit crosses the path of debris thrown off by Comet Swift-Tuttle. This article was taken from: The Star Online: Wo...
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Article: Hearing On Hillside Projects
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009 By IAN MCINTYRE A GROUP of residents in Tanjung Bungah, Penang, is urging other residents to attend a public hearing on hillslope development in the state constituency at the Town Hall in Penang at 2.15pm tomorrow. Pearl Hill Townhouse Phase I and II Residents Association spokesman Desmond Leng said they were trying to get some 150 families in the locality to attend the hearing which was called by the Penang Municipal Council on the request...
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Article: Haze Worsens In Sarawak
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009 By STEPHEN THEN and CHEW WAN YING MIRI: Fires in some districts and oil palm plantations has created a thick blanket of smoke and haze over Sarawak's northern region. Firemen have been working around the clock to bring the blaze under control as well battle peat fires near the Sarawak-Brunei border. The haze and smoke have resulted in flight disruptions and cancellation of public functions. Fires were also reported at oil palm plantations ...
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Article: Attack Of The Fire Ants
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009 By IAN MCINTYRE A COLONY of fire ants attacked a section of the Batu Lanchang hawker centre in Penang with several customers and traders suffering stinging bites that caused huge swellings. "We came to sample hawker food and did not expect to be bitten by ants," said a customer who was part of a group to savour the food at the centre. Pest control: Workers trimming the tree next to the Batu Lanchang hawker centre in Penang. When the ants first a...
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Article: Do More To Protect Our Wildlife
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Wednesday August 12, 2009I REFER to your comprehensive coverage on wildlife trafficking that involved a well known smuggler ("I got greedy" – The Star, Aug 10). I read with so much sadness the rampant smuggling of wildlife that gives a bad name to our country. I cannot understand why Malaysia is a transit point for such illegal activities. While I know that there are steps taken by our Wildlife Department to catch the culprits, I feel the efforts should be intensified. I urge the Government to...
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Article: 700 Trapped, Possibly Dead, In Taiwan: Military
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 A man walks on a damaged road after Typhoon Morakot swept Tainan county, in southern Taiwan August 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) CISHAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - More than 700 people are trapped, possibly dead, in two southern Taiwan villages ravaged by mudslides after typhoon Morakot swamped the island, defence officials said on Tuesday. Hu Jui-chou, an army major-general involved in rescue operations, said those trapped included people buried by a...
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Article: Earthquakes Shake Tokyo Area, Indian Ocean
12th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Tuesday August 11, 2009 MYT 7:39:00 AMUpdated: Tuesday August 11, 2009 MYT 10:53:21 AMTOKYO (AP) - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 hit Tokyo and nearby areas shortly after dawn Tuesday, halting trains and forcing two nuclear reactors to be shut down for safety checks. The U.S. Geological Survey said another, unrelated quake with a 7.6 magnitude hit the Indian Ocean about 160 miles (257 kilometers) north of Port Blair in India's Andaman Islands. A tsunami ...
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Article: Think Green, Kurup Tells All Malaysians
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Monday August 10, 2009 By NIK NAIZI HUSIN KUALA TAHAN (Jerantut): Make caring for nature part of your lifestyle, said Natural Resources and Environment Deputy Minister Tan Sri Joseph Kurup. He said that environmental conservation was a collective responsibility, regardless of what race, religion or age group one belonged to. "Incorporate green living into your lifestyle by understanding the importance of nature and biodiversity," he said. Protecting nature: Kurup...
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Article: Boost For Agro-Tourism
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 By ANN TAN THE Penang Government is planning to turn the Relau Agriculture Centre into an agriculture technology complex which will benefit the agro-tourism or agro-recreational activities. State Agriculture, Agro-based Industries, Rural Development and Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Law Choo Kiang said the state economic planning unit has recently closed a ten-der which attracted various re-search firms bidding for the pro- ject. "We a...
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Article: Going Green
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 By IAN YEE WHEN R.AGE first met Yeong Yze Shiuan, she was desperately trying to start an official environmental society in Universiti Malaya (UM). Now she's organising a competition offering close to RM3,000 in prizes to create awareness about climate change. About six months ago, Shiuan told us about how sad she was that one of the country's premier public universities, which has courses related to the environment, didn't have a society to actively promot...
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Article: Take It Back
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 Foul play: Brazilian environmental officers inspecting some of the 41 containers coming from Britain which contain 1,600 tonnes of household waste imported into the country labelled as recyclable plastic. A SHIP loaded with 1,600 tonnes of rubbish set sail last Wednesday to return the rotting cargo to Britain from Brazil, where it had been shipped falsely declared as plastic for recycling. Eighty-nine containers packed with trash that incl...
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Article: Making A Splash
11th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 11, 2009 By SHARMILLA GANESAN Clean-up efforts are making Sungai Way cleaner and healthier not only for aquatic life, but for those living nearby too. Walking by the Sungai Way river in Selangor was an unpleasant experience less than two years ago. The water was "colourful", thanks to the numerous plastic bags, empty containers and other rubbish caught in it. Forget about seeing any aquatic life. You'd be lucky to see into the water at all. And to to...
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