Nibbes: Nettles, Rivers, Rare species, Library, Afghanistan protected area, Nordic-Baltic-Russian collaboration, Photos, Disease

George Orwell scythes nettles, then seeks uses.
World’s rivers in trouble. Also other wetlands the world over. CWRs to be affected, along with everything else?
Let’s not get too hung up about rarity.

UNESCO launches World Digital Library. Gotta be some agrobiodiversity in there somewhere, surely. Yes indeedy.
Afghanistan’s first national park has some livestock wild relatives!
Circum-Baltic collaboration on genetic resources conservation.
Mongabay.com publishes lots of cool pictures of biodiversity to celebrate Earth Day yesterday. So does The Big Picture, even some vaguely farming ones. And Adam Forbes has just loaded a bunch of photos too. Luigi comments: Why didn’t we do the same for agrobiodiversity?
Tuberculosis and domestication. Not.