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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: Aussie Koala That Survived Fires Dies In Surgery
7th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Thursday August 6, 2009 MYT 2:27:00 PMADELAIDE, Australia (AP) - "Sam" the koala, who gained worldwide fame and sympathy when she was rescued during devastating wildfires this year, has died during surgery. Wildlife center spokeswoman Peita Elkhorne said the 4-year-old koala died Thursday while being operated on to remove ovarian cysts. Sam was made famous by a photograph of her drinking from a firefighter's water bottle as wildfires ravaged Australia in February. She su...
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Article: A New Haven For Fireflies
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Thursday August 6, 2009 By CHAN LI LEEN LANDSCAPE designer M. Anand has proven others wrong that fireflies can only thrive around mangrove trees, the berembang and api-api. He has managed to increase the population of fireflies in a 'self-made forest' in front of his home in Taman Tasik Indah, Taiping, from 80 to about 2,000 now. "There is not a single berembang or api-api tree there," Anand said of the forest he had put together with the acacia and other trees and ...
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Article: Pot Of Gold
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Thursday August 6, 2009 By MARCUS WOHLSEN and LISA LEFF Since California legalised marijuana for medicinal use, 'weed' has become a major economic force, with the state reaping a 9.25% sales tax on purchases. A DRUG deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspects the bag to ensure that everything ...
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Article: Zoo Negara Hopes To Get More Tropical Animals
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Thursday August 6, 2009KUALA LUMPUR: Zoo Negara is looking at expanding its collection of animals, especially those from the tropics. Malaysian Zoological Society chairman Datuk Ismail Hutson said the zoo was hoping to increase the percentage of its tropical animals from 60% to 90% or 100%. "We are targeting to become a world-class zoo by 2015, so hopefully before that we can expand the collection of our animals. "We prefer to concentrate on local tropical animals. If possible, we want to have a...
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Article: Trees For Life Project Marks Second Anniversary
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Thursday August 6, 2009KUCHING: The Kuching branch of the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) celebrated the second anniversary of its Trees For Life project with a day of activities at the Sama Jaya Nature Reserve here. About 70 people comprising MNS members as well as volunteers from HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd, the Sarawak Autistic Association, Cahya Mata Sarawak, Eastern Oxygen and New Century Lions Club of Kuching planted 22 trees at a designated plot in the nature reserve and also took part in tree ...
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Article: Muffy The Dog Reunited With Family 9 Years On
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Tuesday August 4, 2009 MYT 3:44:00 PMBRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Nine years after vanishing from outside her Australian family's home, Muffy the dog was reunited with her eager owners Tuesday after completing a mysterious journey of 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers). Inspectors with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found the fluffy white mutt last month sleeping on a scrap of cardboard in the backyard of a home in the southern city of Melbourne. A microchip i...
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Article: Florida Bay's Ecology On The Brink Of Collapse
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Wednesday August 5, 2009 MYT 7:18:00 PMISLAMORADA, Florida (AP): Boat captain Tad Burke looks out over Florida Bay and sees an ecosystem that's dying as politicians, land owners and environmentalists bicker. He has been plying these waters for nearly 25 years, and has seen the declines in shrimp and lobster that use the bay as a nursery, and less of the coveted species like bonefish that draw recreational sportsmen from around the world. "Bonefish used to be very prevalent, a...
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Article: Koala Saved From Australian Fires Battling Disease
6th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Published: Wednesday August 5, 2009 MYT 7:15:00 PMADELAIDE, Australia (AP): A koala made famous by a photograph of her drinking from a firefighter's water bottle as wildfires ravaged Australia this year is about to undergo a risky surgery, animal shelter officials said Wednesday. "Sam" the koala suffered second- and third-degree burns to her paws in the February fires and is recovering at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter in Victoria state. But shelter spokeswoman Peita Elkhorne sa...
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The Adoption Of Lucky Angel By Her Fosterer!
4th Aug 2009, by Noah's Ark CARES
“Angel” – the first thing that comes to my mind is not the pretty little fairy pictured in fairy tales or in the eyes of children, but the image of a stone fish. That is the only thing that can be used to describe how we felt when we first saw her – lonely, aloof, listless and staring blankly into space.Before you read further, please visit the links below for a recap on Angel's story: http://noahsarkcares.blogspot.com/2009/04/angel.ht ml and http://noahsarkcares.blogspot.com/2009/04/upd...
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Article: High Usage
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday February 24, 2009 By HILARY CHIEW There is no solution in sight for the plastic menace as the material is still freely issued, then carelessly discarded, each day. THE pink bag in the heap of garbage clogging a drain catches your eye instantly. Another one clings to a tree branch in a mangrove swamp. Yet another is blown across across the street as cars pass by. These are the plastic bag menace that many Malaysians can identify with. Although they are an und...
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Article: The German Experience
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Sunday December 7, 2008 By SARAH CHEW There are 'tricks' to conservation, and it's not impossible to save the world. THE few things that struck us when we first arrived in Germany were the sausages, beer, punctuality and – as it was autumn then– the cold weather and the red and brown hues of leaves everywhere. But Malaysian envoys Vigren V. Radha and Chan Sze Meun certainly saw more of the country than these as they were there for the Bayer Young Environmental E...
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Article: Upgraded Model
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009The Civic Hybrid, introduced in 2002, come with a 1.3L engine coupled with a third generation Auto Stop/Start and Assist/Regenerative braking system known as Integrated Motor Assist (IMA). Honda launched the second generation Civic Hybrid in 2006, with an improved iVTEC and fourth generation IMA system. A facelifted version of this model was introduced in Malaysia in March. The car is touted as the most economical and environment-friendly Civic to date. At first glance, it ...
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Article: Harvesting Rainwater
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009FOR the last 4,000 years, rainwater collection has been widely used around the world. Even though we live in a fairly wet country with 990 cu.m of rainwater annually, let's not forget we went through a tough drought in 1998. Things have yet to reach a critical stage in Malaysia where people have no choice but to rely on rainwater although from time to time, the country has faced water shortage. Racing towards curbing the environmental dangers that we are facing today, the G...
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Article: MNS: There Are Many Organisms Yet To Be Named
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009KOTA KINABALU: The world needs more taxonomists to identify and name new species of plants and animals, said Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) president Tan Sri Dr Salleh Mohd Noor. He said the naming (nomenclature) and classification of new plants and organisms was vital in managing the forests. "Malaysia, considered one of 12 megabiodiversities in the world, has many plants and organisms which are yet to be named. "Until we name the plants or animals, we cannot proceed ...
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Article: Balling Mud For Good Cause
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009 By CATHERINE CHONG IT was a messy job but it was all done in the name of saving Mother Earth. Forty teams had loads of fun making some 10,000 EM (effective micro-organism) mud balls in the EM Mud Ball-Making Contest organised by the Auto-City Group in Penang on July 27. Each group was given an hour to produce as many of the EM enriched mud balls as possible. Everyone tried to stay clean in the process but it was a tough task with streaks of th...
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Article: Housing For The Birds
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009 By RASLAN BAHAROM A single storey low-cost unit turned into triple storey swift hotel is causing anxiety among residents in Kuala Sepetang. A FISHMONGER and his 80-year-old father have moved out of their home following the arrival of swiftlets which have built their nests next to their low-cost house in Kuala Sepetang, Perak. Beh Ah Keong (pic) and his father are believed to be the first residents in Malaysia to have moved out of their hou...
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Article: Outdated Cultural Practice
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009I WISH to express my appreciation to Jane Ragavan for her article Culinary cruelty (July 27) which featured the famous Suckling Pig, a popular delicacy in Chinese weddings. I am not a vegetarian but I believe to a certain extent in controlling the degree of cruelty in killing animals to feed ourselves. I have chosen not to consume many of the delicacies in understanding of how the animals were killed to feed man's natural interest in food. For the same reason, I have never...
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Article: User-Friendly Paper Pallets
4th Aug 2009, by Green Animal Shelter & Sanctuary (GrASS)
Tuesday August 4, 2009Protecting the environment is De Frazer's top priority, and it has done so by introducing Green Pallet, a compressed paper pallet manufactured in Malaysia that is user-friendly, durable and can handle loads as heavy as four tonnes. While traditional wooden and plastic pallets are made from wood and non-renewable resources, Green Pallet is made from 100% recycled paper. Paper pallets are 67% lighter than those made of wood. This means lower freight costs. A wooden pallet wei...
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