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Modern EU agriculture jeopardises biodiversity in new member statesStudy from Romania highlights the importance of traditional agriculture in protecting amphibiansPress release from May 26th, 2011 Traditional agricultural practices can make a major contribution to preserving biodiversity in the EU’s new member states in Central and Eastern Europe. By contrast, the construction of roads and the intensification of agriculture currently encouraged by EU farming subsidies pose a threat to amphibians. The rich natural environment still extant in many accession countries is under threat, according to scientists writing in the journal Biological Conservation. The researchers from Romania, Germany and the Netherlands investigated amphibians for their study in the Romanian province of Transylvania. They spent nine years studying the populations of various species of newts, frogs and toads in 54 ponds and related their performance to nearby land use....
Link: Globalisation burdens future generations with biological invasions Date: 2011-08-22
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