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Posted on December 18, 2007

Hamming it up

Jamon iberico finally gets a visa.

Posted on December 17, 2007December 17, 2007

Canadian fish in trouble

Two separate pieces in EurekAlert in the past couple of days point to something being decidedly rotten in the state of Canadian fisheries. First, evidence that parasitic sea lice from salmon farms are spreading to nearby wild populations and may wipe them out within a few years. 1 And the historic American eel fishery is also in trouble, possibly as a result of pollution in Lake Ontario. Bad luck, or something more?

Posted on December 16, 2007

Biblical transportation makes a comeback

Asses Donkeys and mules still big in Gaza.

Posted on December 11, 2007

New film about pastoralists and biodiversity

Keepers of Genes, a 28-minute documentary produced by award-winning filmmaker Moving Images, documents the role played by pastoralists in preserving animal biodiversity and the key issues confronting them today.

Anyone seen it? Anyone know more?

Posted on December 11, 2007

Mopane worms

Mopane worms: a traditional source of protein in Botswana. I’ve tried them. They’re yummie.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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