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Key Pollinators for Food Security and Biodiversity To Be Protected By $27 Million Global Environment Facility Project

A new project worth $26.45 million has been launched by  the  Global  Environment  Facility  (GEF)  to  better  protect  bees,  bats and birds that are essential to the world’s crop production.                                                    


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 14:33 — admin

Study Shows In Monarch Butterflies Cry2 Is King of the Clock

Internal clocks govern the daily rhythms of the most basic functions of waking, eating, and sleeping. The molecular basis of such pacemakers is best understood in fruit flies, where the interactions of a small set of molecules drive the insects' behaviors just as they do our own.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 14:15 — admin

Horizon International and Butterfly Conservation in Assam, India, Successfully Launch Initiative

The primary objective of the programme has been to initiate people into the fantastic world of butterflies and to encourage them to get involved in butterfly study and conservation. 


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 13:18 — admin

Conservation of Butterflies in Assam, India: Setting example for worldwide efforts.

The state of Assam in northeastern India, harboring some of the world’s riches biodiversity, is home to more than 500 species of butterflies.  Large-scale habitat deforestation and fragmentation has led to the decline of several butterfly populations in the state, and many species believed to be common during the early part of the 20th Century have now declined rapidly through much of their range.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 12:49 — admin

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