Comments for The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com Sat, 25 May 2013 07:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Leading Conservationist Calls for Freshwater Advocacy Group by Dr. Anisuzzaman Khan http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/22/leading-conservationist-calls-for-freshwater-advocacy-group-2/#comment-5539 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:07:03 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2813#comment-5539 Freshwater is getting scarce and polluted, Water withdrawl from international river for hydro-power is resulting war, freshwater biodiversity is threatened with extinction mainly because of above said reasons. This is the right time to save natural recycling process for sustaining aquatic natural resources for the ultimate survival of human being.

]]> Comment on World Biodiversity Day 2013 opportunity to raise awareness of freshwater biodiversity by Kathryn Papp http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/16/world-biodiversity-day-2013-opportunity-to-raise-awareness-of-freshwater-biodiversity/#comment-5512 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:24:05 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2754#comment-5512 I do a lot of work in biodiversity crossing over a number of websites and orgs – NEVER HEARD OF THIS DAY.

WHY?

]]> Comment on Leading Conservationist Calls for Freshwater Advocacy Group by The Big Challenges for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation | The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/22/leading-conservationist-calls-for-freshwater-advocacy-group-2/#comment-5509 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:51 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2813#comment-5509 […] in tomorrow for part 2 of the interview, where Will Darwall discusses a potential solution to address freshwater biodiversity’s lack […]

]]> Comment on Meet the BioFresh team: Paul Jepson by The Big Challenges for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation | The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com/2011/07/25/meet-the-biofresh-team-paul-jepson/#comment-5508 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:02 +0000 http://biofreshblog.wordpress.com/?p=1124#comment-5508 […] Day just one sleep away, Will Darwall, Head of the IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, sat down with Paul Jepson from the University of Oxford to discuss some of the big challenges facing freshwater […]

]]> Comment on Meet the BioFresh team: Will Darwall by The Big Challenges for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation | The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/20/meet-the-biofresh-team-will-darwall/#comment-5507 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:53 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2763#comment-5507 […] World Biodiversity Day just one sleep away, Will Darwall, Head of the IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, sat down with Paul Jepson from the University of […]

]]> Comment on Meet the BioFresh team: Paul Jepson by Leading Conservationist Calls for Freshwater Advocacy Group | The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com/2011/07/25/meet-the-biofresh-team-paul-jepson/#comment-5506 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:56:03 +0000 http://biofreshblog.wordpress.com/?p=1124#comment-5506 […] with Paul Jepson from the University of Oxford, Will highlighted the need to work together and form a single […]

]]> Comment on Meet the BioFresh team: Will Darwall by Leading Conservationist Calls for Freshwater Advocacy Group | The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/20/meet-the-biofresh-team-will-darwall/#comment-5505 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:58 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2763#comment-5505 […] the International Day for Biodiversity Will Darwall, Head of IUCN’s Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, has called for the formation of a single group […]

]]> Comment on Meet the BioFresh team: Will Darwall by amartya http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/20/meet-the-biofresh-team-will-darwall/#comment-5493 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:22:57 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2763#comment-5493 While forming an information portal is a very necessary aspect of freshwater biodiversity conservation, the rate at which aquatic ecosystems are being degraded imparts a fierce urgency to addressing the causes of degradation – most significant being deforestation, lack of soil conservation in agricultural watersheds, overfishing, flow alterations in streams and rivers. land use change affecting the hydrological cycle and exotic introductions. It is unfortunate that the worldwide scale of destruction poses a huge task towards arresting degradation. Riparian vegetation buffers are perhaps the cheapest and most effective way, at least to counter sedimentation, also playing other roles like keeping temperature low in streams. I suppose portals like biofresh play the role of informing policymakers and the puiblic about the importance of freshwater biodiversity. The challenge is how to engage the public.

]]> Comment on World Biodiversity Day 2013 opportunity to raise awareness of freshwater biodiversity by Meet the BioFresh team: Will Darwall | The BioFresh blog http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/16/world-biodiversity-day-2013-opportunity-to-raise-awareness-of-freshwater-biodiversity/#comment-5491 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:10:38 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2754#comment-5491 […] Will this week, who outlines some of the key challenges for freshwater biodiversity, to promote the International Day of Biodiversity’s theme ‘Water and […]

]]> Comment on World Biodiversity Day 2013 opportunity to raise awareness of freshwater biodiversity by rjgibson2013 http://biofreshblog.com/2013/05/16/world-biodiversity-day-2013-opportunity-to-raise-awareness-of-freshwater-biodiversity/#comment-5484 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:27:51 +0000 http://biofreshblog.com/?p=2754#comment-5484 On International Day for Water and Biodiversity we should lobby for restoration of regulations to conserve freshwater habitats in Canada. The present federal government has weakened regulations, including allowing mining companies to use pristine lakes for dumping their toxic wastes, rather than building more expensive containment devices. A recent example is the destruction of Sandy Pond in Newfoundland (www.sandypondalliance.org), where an isolated post-glacial lake, with a unique large race of brook trout, is to be used by a mining company (Vale) for their mining wastes. A ‘compensation’ plan of removing a partial barrier on a lake in another system is totally inadequate , and mainly a public relations strategy, and cannot compensate for the loss of a priceless unique ecosystem. If regulations are not changed, other pristine systems in Canada will be lost.

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