Archive for 'Biodiversity'
The Invasive Alien Plant Crisis
A rash of new trees, shrubs, vines, creepers, wild flowers, grasses and fresh water aquatic plants are in the process of taking over vast areas of our remaining wild lands. These “new†plants evolved thousands of miles away across oceans and continents, but in a corner of its continent with a climate similar to ours. [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2006 under Biodiversity, Invasive Aliens, Rants & Raves, Uncategorized.
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High Arctic Wildlife Census
From July 17 to September 10, 2006 I was bird lecturer and part-time charismatic megafauna spotter on Quark Expedition’s Kapitan Klebnikov from the Chukotka Peninsula to the Thule area of NW Greenland. We traversed the NW Passage south of Victoria Island, then counter-clockwise around Baffin Island, around Devon Island, west side of Ellesmere, then east [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2006 under Biodiversity, Rare Sightings, Uncategorized, Wild Life.
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