Never rains but it pours. Mars and Nestle jump on the ethical cacao bandwagon.
Iriomote cat threatened
Not that close a relative of the domesticated cat, but still interesting, and in trouble.
Micronutrients protect against malaria
Another reason to eat those orange bananas (and sweet potatoes).
Plant barcode gene identified
Plant barcoders finally find the gene.
Agrobiodiversity and climate change in Madagascar
There’s a workshop going on in Antananarivo on the Impacts of Climate Change on Madagascar’s Biodiversity and Livelihoods. My friend Robert Hijmans is there and he sent me the link to the flickr site of one of the participants, Ratoza Harinjaka, who’s got some photos of the meeting up. Including this one of Robert.
Ratoza has kindly given his permission for us to use the photo. He has blogged about the workshop. Thanks for the use of the pic, Ratoza. If either you or Robert would like to write something for us on the meeting, you’re most welcome to do so. It sounds like the recommendations will be on the Foko website in due course. But it’s always nice to get it from the horse’s mouth.