Posted on 01/21/2012 5:33:31 PM PST by dila813
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Dealing with the biodiversity crisis requires political will and needs to be based on a solid scientific knowledge if we are to ensure a safe future for the planet. This is the main conclusion from scientists from University of Copenhagen, after 100 researchers and policy experts from EU countries were gathered this week at the University of Copenhagen to discuss how to organise the future UN Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES -- an equivalent to the UN panel on climate change (IPCC).
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Is it just me or when the Greenies scream CRISIS, I just ignore it. Everything is not a crisis but the liberal media has to state that it is over and over again.
If we just raise taxes, all will be well...
Fukushima will fix this “problem”.
The number of mutations will rise.
The pace of evolution will quicken.
I’m not joking.
——How is biodiversity measured? What is the correct amount of it?——
The correct amount is invertedly related to the amount of tax dollars that can be scammed By fearmongrering
To enviromental terrorist we have gained complete biodiversity when the human race no longer exists
This is gross abuse of the word “science”.
>>>Our twenty-year wildland restoration project on our property now hosts 357 vascular plant species, of which 245 are native. I defy the UN to find that kind of density in botanical species richness in any park, preserve, wilderness, or open space on the entire continent. I will happily challenge any expert they can produce.
PEOPLE are the best managers of habitat vitality because they induce prospective disturbance and manage predation at all levels of the biological pyramid. Excluding people in the name of “preserving nature” will necessarily lead to catastrophic system crashes and multiple extirpations, whether due to multi-predator systems or uninterrupted succession, guaranteed.>>>
Ditto on my little half-acre up here in Alaska. Folks are astonished at the diversity of plant and animal life in comparison to the relative low diversity of the surrounding boreal forest.
Yep, the “natural regulation” policy of the Park Service means that nearly two thirds of wolf deaths in Denali NP are due to cannibalism.
There are certain simple steps I would support. For instance, we could ban import and export of exotic animals as personal pets. The trade decimates populations in some cases, and destroys other ecosystems in others. Burmese Pythons don’t belong in Florida.
by that chart Biodiversity is going up exponentially
by that chart Biodiversity is going up exponentially
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