April 26th, 2007
By Anita Campbell

Back in October 2006 the Royal Society published an online version of a comprehensive study that was the first attempt to put a global value on pollinators. It attracted some attention back then, at The Worsted Witch, who got it from Science Daily. We missed it at the time1, but as the paper version has just been published, that's enough reason to revisit it2.

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April 26th, 2007
By Anita Campbell

The Global Trees Campaign says that 131 of 245 wild "The significance of this potentially catastrophic loss lies not only in the threat to the genetic diversity of the family, but also because they are a highly sensitive indicator of the well-being of the forests in.

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