Posts Tagged "biodiversity"

  • The best biodiversity blogs: reviews and rankings

    [caption id="attachment_930" align="alignleft" width="204" caption="Forest fruits from Barro Colorado illustrate tropical rainforest biodiversity. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia.)"][/caption] Biodiversity is in the news. 2010 is the UN Year of Biodiversity, which has done much to raise public awareness. So inevitably we are seeing more blogs dedicated to the topic. Yay! But it's hard to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Google "biodiversity blog" (with quotes) and you get several thousand hits. Which of those can you put into your RSS reader? Which bloggers

  • Online network connects journalists with biodiversity information

    [caption id="attachment_913" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Biodiversity Media Alliance aims to boost the quantity and quality of media coverage of biodiversity issues."][/caption] Biodiversity Media Alliance is a Ning social network for media professionals who are covering biodiversity issues. The International Institute for Environment and Development, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Internews created the site to help connect journalists with sources of information about biodiversity. The site's tagline is "Linking Journalism With

  • New rules for biodiversity should boost options for biological pest control

    [caption id="attachment_479" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Larva of the lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea feeding on an aphid. Lacewings are often available from biological pest control dealers. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia.)"][/caption] Our increasingly interconnected world is helping crop pests spread ever faster and more widely. Chemical pest controls are effective but expensive and soon become obsolete as organisms evolve resistance. Biological pest controls are a natural solution to agricultural pests that, compared with chemical pesticides, need fewer repetitive treatments, are less likely to engender resistant pest strains and don't present pollution problems. But

  • Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

    Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is full of wealth: it is one of the richest places on earth in terms of biodiversity; it is home to the indigenous Waorani people, as well as several uncontacted tribes; and the park's forest and soil provides a massive carbon sink. More

  • Suit Seeks to Protect 70,000 Additional Acres for Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow

    WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Florida Biodiversity Project filed suit today to obtain a larger protected area for the highly endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow by reversing a Bush-era decision that struck down 70,000 acres of critical habitat identified by scientists as essential for the survival of the rare songbird. The lawsuit is part of a larger campaign on the part of the Center to undo a slew of decisions by the Bush administration that ignored the government’s own scientists and weakened protections for endangered species. More