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key issues
April 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
HONEY BEES DYING (Colony Collapse Disorder):
From November 2007 – Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine, posts as “The Beekeeper” on TheDailyGreen.com. This piece is a good place to start for info on CCD:
Colony Collapse Disorder Goes Mainstream
Other reading:
New York Times “Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril” – February 2007
Science Daily piece with video – July 2007
Bend Weekly piece with good survey-type info and graphic – April, 2008
BATS DYING
A newer phenomenon. Start here:
New York Times “Bats Perish and No One Knows Why” – March 25, 2008
Natural News “First it was bees, now its bats” – April 11, 2008
LOONS DYING
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Thousands of Loons Dying in Great Lakes Area” – Dec. 29, 2007
Star Tribune “Are Lake Superior’s Loons Next?” – Dec. 8, 2007
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key websites
April 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
These categorized links will grow from in-house research and audience contributions. If you have a recommendation, protest, or if any links are inoperable, please leave a comment below.
Government Groups:
- NY State Department of Environmental Conservation
- United States Geological Survey
- United States Fish and Wildlife Survey (state by state)
- Center for Disease Control
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Department of Natural Resources (Michigan)
Boards & Orgs:
- Bat Conservation Trust (UK)
- Bat Conservation International
- The National Honey Board
- American Beekeeping Federation
- Entomological Society of America
- Humane Society
- Canadian Lakes Loon Survey
- Loon Watch
- Loons Dying
Media Sources:
- Nature
- Science
- Seed
- Scientific American
- National Geographic
- BATS Magazine
- First Nature, Windows on Wildlife
- Wild Bird Magazine
- Birdwatchers Digest
- Bee Culture
- American Bee Journal
Research and Info:
- Wildlife Search
- Everything About: Honey Bee
- The Extinction Website
- Extinct Animal
- Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education – Bangalore, India
- Mongabay
Bloggers and Miscellany:
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mission statement
April 7, 2008 · 1 Comment
The site: Ecosystem Failure
Almost two years ago, honey bees around the country started dying by the millions.
Why is that important?
Because without the penny-sized pollinators, your neighborhood grocery could be forever without:
- alfalfa
- almonds
- apples
- avocados
- blueberries
- cantaloupe
- cherries
- cranberries
- cucumbers
- pumpkins
- sunflower seeds
- watermelon
Not to mention honey.
The phenomenon, dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder, remains a puzzle. Brainy researchers and embattled beekeepers have pointed to mites, parasites, pesticides, viruses, industrialized agriculture and even the practices of commercial beekeepers. But CCD continues its creep.
And honey bees are not alone.
Within the last year, bats in the northeast began losing numbers at genocidal rates. Bats may not be responsible for pollinating 1/3 of America’s food, but they are key members of the ecosystem as limiters of insect populations.
So, why the blog?
Because honey bees and bats are getting the short end of an “artificial selection” stick. Extinction is a sad reality – think the Ibex or the Black Rhino – but these phenomena move too fast for Darwin.
You should know about them.
ALSO: The reporter is not immune to the plights of animals with less utility than bees or bat, but more cache for the stuffed-animal crazed milieu (I like monkeys), so, the blog will keep up with tigers, loons of the Great Lakes, turtles of Madagascar and more…
The reporter: Sol Lieberman
- Working for a master’s at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
- Born and raised in Minneapolis
- B.A., political science, the University of Wisconsin – Madison
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