Another brick in the “Well

Another brick in the “Well - DUH!” wall

By Charlie • November 19, 2009 • No comments yet

The widespread use of genetically modified crops engineered to tolerate herbicides has led to “a sharp increase in the use of agricultural chemicals in the U.S”. This practice is creating herbicide-resistant “super weeds” and an increase in chemical residues in U.S. food, and the resulting war between farmers and increasingly tough-to-kill weeds is “bad news for farmers, human health and the environment”. Jeez, really?! ENN has more details..

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Charlie has birded all over the world for twenty years. He has finally grown-up after years of having way too much fun and is now trying hard to be the writer/conservationist he's always said he wants to be. Blogging with 10,000 Birds is like chatting to hundreds of friends every day and suits him perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

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UK birders: like a free copy of ‘Otis’ magazine?

‘Otis’ - the magazine I edit for the Great Bustard Group - is back from the printers and it looks flipping great. They normally retail for 3GBP (free for GBG members of course), but I’m in a generous mood and I’ve copies to give-away to the first ten people who mail me at charlie10000birds - AT - gmail.com. I’ll even pay the postage (which is why I can only do this for UK-based readers, sorry).

Bird Fail

Though on Failblog it is presented as “Whale Win” this is a birding blog so we have to present things from the bird point of view…

He Makes It Sound So Easy

Over at Aimophila Adventures, Rick has a four-step post on How to See American Dippers. It seems so simple I’m not sure why I haven’t seen one yet. Maybe I need to get a dog?

Amazon very close to tipping point

The Amazon jungle “is very close to a tipping point,” and if destruction continues it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years. Climate change, deforestation and fire are the drivers of this potential Amazonian apocalypse. The loss of biodiversity would be staggering: a single hectare of Amazon rainforest contains more than 750 types of trees and 1,500 other plants, and a single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety of fish than is found in all of Europe’s rivers. The Andes mountain range and the Amazon jungle are home to more than half of the world’s species of flora and fauna. Before the end of this century many, and perhaps most, of those species will become extinct.