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Posted on June 19, 2007June 19, 2007

Chilean salmon farming

WWF recommends how salmon farming and beautiful Chilean lakes can co-exist.

Posted on June 18, 2007

Croatian agricultural biodiversity

Conference on Croatian breeds and varieties, in Croatian though.

Posted on June 17, 2007June 17, 2007

Un-spinning “natural” skimmed milk

Muck and Mystery unspins “natural” skimmed milk.

Posted on June 15, 2007

Rabbits breeding like … rabbits

Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits reintroduced into their native habitat in the state of Washington are finally breeding, raising hopes that this endangered species will recover. Ok, so as wild relatives of a domesticated species go, this one is a fairly remote one, but who knew that “the domestic Oryctolagus cuniculus is believed to have originated in French monasteries in the late first millennium?”

Posted on June 11, 2007

Gone fishing

Fish are agricultural biodiversity too!

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agrobiodiversity inspires tourism in the Andes of Peru.
    2. South African fruit exporters does its (small) bit for heirloom apple conservation.
    3. Wild tea doing just fine in the Shunhuangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, China. Even when harvested by local communities. Looks great for tourism too.
    4. Native communities in Nebraska getting some support for saving and exchanging seeds.
    5. Women are in charge of chiles in Tamil Nadu.
    6. Popular Science does genebanks. At least one genebank has tourism potential, I’d say.
    7. Want to support forest landscape restoration through native tree planting in Kenya? Go to MyFarmTrees, and help keep Kenya a tourism hotspot.

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