Tag: Biodiversity
Maud Lelièvre, President of IUCN: “The protection of pollinating insects is an emergency”
The city of Tours, in central France, is hosting the first Biodiversity University this Saturday, November 27. The meeting organized by the OLB, the French Biodiversity Office, is intended to…
Cyril Dion, defender of biodiversity with “Animal”
What distinguishes humans from other mammals on Earth? Laughter, wrote Rabelais in the 16th century … The philosopher Descartes estimated that this creature, the highest in the animal kingdom, had…
The disappearance of large herbivores has encouraged fires
Specific richness of late Quaternary herbivores. Pre: before the extinction period, post: after the extinction period. Yellow: grazers, blue: herbivores foraging on trees and bushes, green: diet intermediate between the…
Beekeepers against pesticides, the fight continues
While the Ministry of Ecology has just launched a pollinator plan intended to protect biodiversity, beekeepers are afraid for their bees. Because between the provisional authorizations of neonicotinoids and other…