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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Interesting look at patterns in biodiversity.
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Quick and easy read that did a good job outlining the basics... at least from the standpoint of the surveying method I was taught. 1 thing though that wasn't mentioned would be the loss of biodiversity due to petsicides and invasives which.... have a pattern of their own. Their distribution follows the pattern of population and trade.
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A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Did you read the section on biodiversity theory? I think the whole site is well put together and a real educational tool.
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Sorry so long in getting back to you.... I screwed myself downloading updates from Microsoft then updated my firefox and found out the new version disabled some add ons and extensions by default a little bit too late to save myself and... my computer God was out of town!!! I went through withdrawals I tell you but.... I did get a chance to read all your links and "explore"" more of the site and would have to say they… like everyone else and their brother…. nailed the major challenge confronting us. Problem is….I’m in the roll up our sleeves and “do something meaningful right now” in our own backyards camp not the “seek out and get access to $$$ for even more grants so we can dole out even more research $$$ for another study” camp then have another “global” meeting to discuss the crisis du jour while everyone stands around wringing their hands waiting for a silver bullet to manifest itself via “research” and “legislation”, Canadian Biodiversity: Legislation: Canadian organizations and Canadian Biodiversity : Legislation: International organizations. Everyone knows what the underlying problem is… too many people left increasingly more dependent on industrialized agricultural practices and technologies benefitting the elite. Right now at 7B people over 70% of our terrestrial land is disturbed. At 8B people how much more of our terrestrial land will have been degraded, cleared, modified, fragmented, or covered? How about what’ll be left when we hit the 9B mark which is projected by the middle of this century…. yet…. we’re still collectively subsidizing worldwide breeding to the tune of trillions while each new human brought into this world is consuming even more precious resources>>>? And….. we wonder why there’s no money available to do something…. anything… meaningful to get ourselves off their treadmill>>>?
-- Money spent funding endless research is money that isn’t being spent locally tackling our conservation issues traditionally. Another conference with delegates from 200 nations isn’t gonna work and neither is enforcing “required” legislation and I think most of us are coming to that conclusion. Me personally…. I just don’t think we need another website subliminally working us over so we’re more accepting of UNCED’s Agenda 21 as the answer to our problems… there is no cooperation at an international level…. there never has been …. it’s been every country for itself whether we want to believe that or not. Americans would be so much farther along if we’d break loose and go it on our own. This is totally doable. We lead by example. We the people…. become the change we want to see in the people of other nations and we start in our own backyards and communities. Here’s a good starting point for this fine fix we’re in, pollinators-welcome.... next… we ask that tried and true practices be applied at a state then a national level.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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I'm not suggesting that we should ignore what is going on in distant places, but I don't think that should distract us from being successful in our own realm.
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