Urbanization has led two threatened butterfly species to become critically dependent on a non-native caterpillar plant in Singapore. Some non-native plants can provide unexpected benefits for butterflies and aid conservation efforts. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Out now! Singapore is prominent in the global trade of pet birds, primarily parrots. Jain et al. provide an initial mapping of the country's #parrot trade ecosystem.🦜 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1017/S00306…

Penchant for parrots: are parrot hobbyists the curse but also the cure? 🦜 'Our study contextualizes #parrot ownership as embedded within the social network of hobbyist groups.' Read Jain et al.'s blog: oryxthejournal.org/blog/penchant-…

"I will never forget the cries of a chained cockatoo" x.com/srijanapiya17/…

As Sumer Singh Bhati of Sanwta village laments over the death of this GIB early this morning, most of the bird diverters placed on the transmission lines have fallen down, so are the birds. The transmission lines have to go underground. There is no other option.

New disc, new art. In-house artist NUS CNCS Liang Hanci was the talent behind this art-piece (helmeted hornbill) on Discraft Ultimate

A milestone study on Singapore biodiversity estimates 37% extinction rate across 9 major groups, lower than previously thought but with large mammals and forest specialists still particularly vulnerable. New paper by Ryan Chisholm and others in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our new open access publication identifies Important Hornbill Landscapes in Sarawak, Malaysia. These landscapes are > 50,000 ha, with diverse hornbill species, breeding populations and policy support. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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