News Roundup

An enormous timber deal has been signed in Canada, protecting or conserving about 72 million hectares of land.
You can’t say it enough: communicating conservation research and management is critical to successful projects.
Some cool new iPhone apps, one for bird watchers and one for gorillas. The BirdsEye app is especially cool, with up-to-date information on other sightings in your area. I believe the goal is to update sightings from the app, providing an enormous amount of data for ecologists. This article says that in the past 8 years, eBird has gone from a few thousand sightings reported every month to more than 1.5 million.
Invasive species news: some invasives, not always bad; although when they look like “sea snot,” that’s probably a bad thing. Oh and “don’t sleep with the windows open” kudzu increases air pollution.

Posted by Tim on May 19th, 2010 • • 1 comment
Tags: birds•communication•gorillas•kudzu•timber

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Steven Earl Salmony said, on May 21st, 2010 at 5:03 am

There is a sad state of affairs in the Gulf of Mexico. An ecosystem is being ruined. There has got to be a better way than the unsustainable path we are so adamantly and recklessly pursuing now. Is this what wanton greed hath wrought?

While Father Greed can be readily seen ravaging Mother Nature, it is just as easy to recognize that without Mother Nature’s abundant resources and viable ecosystem services all the overproducing, overconsuming and overpopulating activities spawned by Father Greed will lead to some sort of unimaginable, human-driven “crash”, the likes of which only Ozymandias has witnessed.

Disgraceful, greed-mongering Masters of the Universe among us recently cratered the global economy.
http://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/i-write-to-you-from-a-disgraced-profession/
Now they are on the verge of risking the collapse of Earth’s ecology.