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Biodiversity in Europe is disappearing at an alarming rate. The European Common Agricultural Policy proposed that between three and seven percent of EU farmland should be managed as ecological focus area to halt this loss. Thus..


Continue reading 11 February 2016   9 jaar oud
A teak plantation in the Kumawu Forest District of the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission of Ghana. The plantation lacks forest structure and composition, and hence, the capacity to provide the full bundle of ecosystem services or non-timber forest products for forest fringe communities. The lack of understory does not provide the necessary protection and habitat for wildlife animals (quadrupeds in particular).

The biodiversity-rich rainforest in Africa is being converted to monoculture plantations of fast-growing exotic species. In Ghana, 95% of the 16 million seedlings supplied for planting countrywide in 2011 were exotic trees. These..


Continue reading 30 December 2015   9 jaar oud
Invasive goats

Recent studies have recorded 211 alien invasive species in the Dutch Caribbean, ranging from lionfish to boa constrictors, iguanas, plants and bugs. These include 27 introduced marine species, 65 introduced terrestrial plants, 72..


Continue reading 02 October 2015   9 jaar oud

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