Friday 11 April 2008

In the news...

There's no bad time for good news, and here's some of the best...

The miracle in Madagascar – a blueprint for saving species By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Friday, 11 April 2008

The Independent

A study aimed at preventing the continued destruction of wildlife in Madagascar is being heralded as a scientific triumph that could act as a blueprint to save many other species from mass extinction.

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The gist of it is that protecting the world's great biodiversity hot spots may now include comprehensive techniques which include action plans for the ecosystem rather than a handful of popular species (as has been the modus operandi in many situations). More than 2,000 different species were surveyed for the project and all that information fed into a computer model which alerted the conservationists to where their resources would have the greatest consequence. And it worked!

How cool is that?

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