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miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014

DON CHOPO: UN EXTRAORDINARIO HERMANO Y AMIGO EN JACA (HUESCA, ESPAÑA) Y SUS SERVICIOS ECOLOGICOS

Disculpad las molestias pero nuestro artículo ha sido hackeado por elementos retrógrados que se oponen a la conservación de la biodiversidad en Jaca. Por el momento, os recomendamos leer un PDF del documento: pinchar en el siguiente enlace:




Para vuestro conocimiento, no nos hemos dado por vencidos ante los hackers y después de arduo trabajo hemos vuelto a poner el artículo original y aumentado de Don Chopo:

REPOST: pinchar AQUI.

¡LUCHEMOS JUNTOS POR CONSERVAR LOS ARBOLES CENTENARIOS DE JACA! 

¡Gracias por vuestra paciencia y colaboración!



lunes, 21 de abril de 2014

THE WONDER OF WEEDS

The beauty of dandelions (Taraxacum officinale). Source: Organic Gardening.



Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops. 

Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril. [AvaxHome]



                                   Uploaded by Chuck Merde.

jueves, 10 de abril de 2014

AUSTRALIA’S TRUCKLOAD OF PESTICIDES

Source: Wikipedia.


By Gundhramns Hammer
April 10, 2014

More than 8.000 pesticides are used in Australia and out of these there are 80 which have already been prohibited in other countries, for example, in the European Union, according to Immig (2010).  

These chemicals have a wide variety of uses, from home gardens and agriculture to livestock and stored crops.

As the name "pesticides" implies, these chemical substances have been designed to kill pests that damage plants and animals of economic interest of humans.

Therefore, all pesticides have to be handle with caution. And some of them are extremely dangerous, known to be highly toxic, capable of causing cancer and disrupting our endocrine and immune systems.

Moreover, they are amongst the worst environmental contaminants, polluting water, air and soil.

The following paper gives an account of the most dangerous pesticides in use in Australia nowadays:


A LIST OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST DANGEROUS PESTICIDES

July 2010
Jo Immig, Coordinator, National Toxics Network

Introduction

Over 8000 pesticide and veterinary products are registered for use in Australian agriculture, horticulture, livestock, forestry, commercial premises, parks, homes and gardens. This document lists some of Australia’s most dangerous pesticides. More than 80 of these are prohibited in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the other 24 member countries of the European Union. 

Read the full document: Click HERE.