Let’s Save the Planet Together

Let’s Save the Planet Together

One day, warns Ahmad A Talib, chairman of the environmentalist group Yayasan Salam Malaysia, the pleasant blue and green world we’ve long known as our home planet will have ceased to exist as a haven of natural wonders. Instead, it will be a largely barren and dismal place with runaway…

Earth has lost a Tenth of its Wilderness within the past 25 Years

Earth has lost a Tenth of its Wilderness within the past 25 Years

In the vast span of geological time, a quarter century is a mere blink of an eye. Yet within that short period of time we have destroyed a tenth of the Earth’s wilderness. Quite a dubious achievement, that. According to an international group of scientists who have mapped the planet’s…

World’s ‘Longest’ Snake is found in Penang

World’s ‘Longest’ Snake is found in Penang

Construction workers at a building site for a flyover in Paya Terubong on Penang came across something truly extraordinary – a giant python. And not just any python either but possibly the longest python ever caught alive: she measured around 8 meters in length and weighed around 250kg. The pregnant…

Sabah’s Wild Elephants are Facing a Dangerous Genetic Bottleneck

Sabah’s Wild Elephants are Facing a Dangerous Genetic Bottleneck

As wildlife populations of endangered species shrink within a habitat, so does their genetic viability. With reduced gene pools, wild animals come to be increasingly at risk of inbreeding – the mating of two genetically closely related individuals. A frequent outcome of that: homozygosity, which increases their offspring’s chances of…