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
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