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Biodiversity
- ISSN 1488-8386 a subscription
based quarterly journal
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CONTRIBUTIONS
(review of first three issues): |
The first issue of Biodiversity devoted itself to
discussing these issues and offering alternatives as well as
featuring both an article on the threats of genetic
engineering to biodiversity and a contrasting opinion piece
favouring genetic engineering. It also provided the example
of how one woman farmer in Mexico, and her friends,
cultivated diverse crops to feed their families.
2. May 2000 - Biodiversity 1(2):
The second issue discussed the
diversity of spiders and their utility as biocontrol agents.
Exploration of this diverse group was undertaken to
counterbalance the usual negative image that spiders have
and to show their ecological roles in natural environments
and agroscapes.
Parks are sometimes seen by development agencies and some
policy makers in developing countries as extras which
benefit only visitors from the First World. The article on
Non-Damaging Biodevelopment in Costa Rica shows how such
protected areas can be managed for the benefit of and with
the participation of local people, as well as others, and
discusses some of the financial and other difficulties tha t
may be
encountered. It also showed how administration can be made
more effective by combining government agencies involved in
protection under one agency.
A portion of the people around the world live too distant
from the power grid to be able to tap into it. An example
from rural Ontario shows how it is possible to draw upon the
benefits of electricity without being connected to the grid.
The article on Seahorses describes the importance of
taxonomic knowledge to the management and conservation of
these peculiar and endangered fishes.
3. August 2000 - Biodiversity 1(3):
The third issue told
about the achievement of social forestry in India. This is
one of series of articles which will, we hope, reverse the
dominantly one-way stream of information from developed to
developing countries as well as facilitate lines of
communication between developing countries.
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