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| Bumblebee extinct in Britain to be reintroduced from NZ |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
Posted:
Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:08 am
Short-haired bumblebee first transported on lamb boats makes return trip to Britain to stem decline in species vital for pollination
| Quote: | A bumblebee which died out in the UK, but survived in New Zealand after being shipped there more than a hundred years ago, is to be reintroduced here under plans announced today.
Small populations of the short-haired bumblebee were established on the South Island of New Zealand after being transported there on the first refrigerated lamb boats in the late 19th century to pollinate crops of red clover.
The bees will not suffer from jet lag as they will be in hibernation whhen they are transported on planes in cool boxes, according to Natural England.The short-haired bumblebee became extinct in this country in 2000, but the populations on the other side of the world have clung on — although conservationists say they are unprotected and under threat.
Now Natural England, along with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT), the RSPB and bee research charity Hymettus, have launched a scheme to bring the species home.
Poul Christensen, Natural England's acting chairman, said: "Bumblebees are suffering unprecedented international declines and drastic action is required to aid their recovery.
"Bumblebees play a key role in maintaining food supplies — we rely on their ability to pollinate crops and we have to do all we can to provide suitable habitat and to sustain the diversity of bee species. |
Guardian 
Is this being downplayed, how decimated have the hives become in the UK?
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Author:
ultima ratio ::
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Sun May 24, 2009 9:44 am
A kiwi Greenpeace campaign to request the PM signs up to a 40% reduction in C02 levels by 2020.
43,422 people had signed up when I pressed sign on 
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So 30% of NZ's power comes from carbon sources & the National Govt seem to like coal power, so can't see reductions coming from there.
I received an extract from NZ Transport Authority last week, showing their income comes primarily from petrol sales, so not sure how successful the transition to electric cars will be... + the kiwi love affair with V8's 
So what's left, farming?
Will Fonterra be subsidised to feed the cows non-nitrogen based feed?
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| Answers to all your questions |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
Posted:
Wed May 20, 2009 10:15 am
http://www51.wolframalpha.com/
Is this the start of real cloud intelligence?
Who cares, it answers questions, post your favourite answers:
highest known prime number?
Largest prime: There is no largest Prime
Largest known prime: 2^43119609-1
Computed by Wolfram MathematicaDownload as: PDFLive Mathematica
Love it 
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| The Speaker exits with revolution in the air. |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
Posted:
Wed May 20, 2009 7:39 am
I say, bring it on
The great expenses fraud is a symptom of a larger disease. We need a new constitution, with the people as sovereign
| Quote: | | It is this, not the mechanics of expenses, that has to change. It will require MPs to see themselves not as masters of their own universe, who expect the taxpayer to pamper them with silk cushions and country houses as if that is their divine right – but as employees of the people who elect them. |
Guardian
Brilliant, bring on the revolution, is a constitution too much to ask?
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| As the political consensus collapses, |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
Posted:
Tue May 19, 2009 9:03 am
As the political consensus collapses, now all dissenters face suppression
Peaceful protest - or 'domestic extremism' - is being put down with increasing violence by our police forces
| Quote: | | There is no place for dissenting views in mainstream politics. I was told recently by a Labour backbencher – a respected MP untainted by the expenses scandal – that "if the door was open just an inch to new ideas, I would stay on. But it has been slammed shut, so I'm resigning at the next election." Our grossly unfair electoral system, which responds to the concerns of just a few thousand floating voters and shuts out the minor parties; the vicious crackdown on dissent within parliament by whips and spin doctors; the neoliberalism forced upon governments by corporate power and the Washington consensus; the terror of the tabloid press – all combine to create a political culture which cannot respond to altered realities without collapsing. What cannot be accommodated must be suppressed. |
Cif Surprised anyone? 
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