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Portfolio Alerts Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
"If bees were to disappear, man would only have a few years to live". - Albert Einstien
VISALIA, Calif., Feb. 23 — David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing.
In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including California almonds, one of the nation’s most profitable.
“I have never seen anything like it,” Mr. Bradshaw, 50, said from an almond orchard here beginning to bloom. “Box after box after box are just empty. There’s nobody home.”
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.p...70227131202320
Deadly fungus threatens mass extinction of frogs
Conservationists call on zoos to help in £200m rescue plan as a deadly African fungus threatens 1,900 species of frog
Conservationists estimate that 170 species of frogs have become extinct in the last two decades and fear another 1,900 (out of a total 5000 known) are on the way out. Many of them have been killed off by the chytrid fungus which is thought to have emerged from Africa to spread to every continent except Antarctica.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1391853.ece
"If bees were to disappear, man would only have a few years to live". - Albert Einstien
VISALIA, Calif., Feb. 23 — David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing.
In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including California almonds, one of the nation’s most profitable.
“I have never seen anything like it,” Mr. Bradshaw, 50, said from an almond orchard here beginning to bloom. “Box after box after box are just empty. There’s nobody home.”
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.p...70227131202320
Deadly fungus threatens mass extinction of frogs
Conservationists call on zoos to help in £200m rescue plan as a deadly African fungus threatens 1,900 species of frog
Conservationists estimate that 170 species of frogs have become extinct in the last two decades and fear another 1,900 (out of a total 5000 known) are on the way out. Many of them have been killed off by the chytrid fungus which is thought to have emerged from Africa to spread to every continent except Antarctica.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1391853.ece
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