Monday, November 13, 2006

Some new reading from Nat'l Geographic and others.

I had the chance to read the Jan. 2006 Nat'l Geographic last week ( my daughter showed it too me) with the article on frog decline worldwide...the links here are partially from that article and a few that came about searching for more information on it. How about putting something up in the driest area in Kona? Also very close to the airport and available for visitors to the island to see.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature6/

http://amphibiaweb.org/declines/

http://amphibiaweb.org/declines/zoo/index.html

Here's another view of the situation: (you need adobe reader)http://www.springerlink.com/content/h823j141135vh153/fulltext.pdf

And Puerto Rico in 2003 had a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act:http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-12-09.asp#anchor2

The El Nino weather pattern for 06-07 should bring about some interesting topics.
Thanks for reading.