2024 will be "year of public hygiene" for the city-state. Beyond enforcement, community clean-up organisation Stridy hopes to see infrastructure improvements such as better-placed bins and signages, as well as more efforts to recognise cleaners.
A spike in losses of the critically endangered scaly anteater raises questions about the rate of deforestation and efforts to connect forest patches in the city-state.
A new regulation - which allows hydropower and tourism resorts in national parks - highlights Nepal’s challenges as it seeks to consolidate its wildlife laws.
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