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The report in the Sunday Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4405765.ece) that a number of bodies and celebrities are joining a campaign to prevent 'butterflies fluttering to extinction' is interesting. Certainly, this year appears to have been a very difficult one for UK species (it has been cold, windy and wet at the 'wrong' times) and butterflies are good bioindicators but, given what appears to be happening in terms of climate change, the idea that one can pick out species (based on their attractiveness?) for salvation seems a rather simplistic one. The odds are that we will have Chaos Theory (the movement of a butterfly's wing in the Amazon resulting in a hurricane elsewhere) in reverse (hurricanes etc 'blowing away' large numbers of species).
Monday, 28 July 2008
Papillon All Gone?
The report in the Sunday Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4405765.ece) that a number of bodies and celebrities are joining a campaign to prevent 'butterflies fluttering to extinction' is interesting. Certainly, this year appears to have been a very difficult one for UK species (it has been cold, windy and wet at the 'wrong' times) and butterflies are good bioindicators but, given what appears to be happening in terms of climate change, the idea that one can pick out species (based on their attractiveness?) for salvation seems a rather simplistic one. The odds are that we will have Chaos Theory (the movement of a butterfly's wing in the Amazon resulting in a hurricane elsewhere) in reverse (hurricanes etc 'blowing away' large numbers of species).
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