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WHOA!

That's one impressive action! I mean, I know it's old hat to you guys, but it never gets old to me :-)

There are so many things to talk about with respect to biodiversity. One thing I read about recently was this study:

What do the frozen expanses of northern Canada, the balmy Bahamas and the verdant islands of Indonesia all have in common? They have all been pinpointed as places where the world's mammals are most at risk of future fights against extinction.

The animals that live there are not threatened now, but could yet find their populations in peril.

Researchers led by Marcel Cardillo of Imperial College London compiled the list of the world's top 20 potential hotspots for mammalian extinction by looking at current and predicted data on the extinction risk to almost 4,000 terrestrial mammals. The hotspots are defined as areas where predicted extinction risks are much higher than they are today.

"The aim was to identify areas where a lot of mammal species may not currently be under threat, but because of their biology they may be vulnerable to changes in the future," says Cardillo.

(Click here for an image and list of the hotspots.)

So that's something that can (potentially) offer hope, at least in theory, but people have to actually take action, which is the whole point. I guess it's up to environmentalists like us to bring about awareness.

That's amazing! It's bound to get some attention!! But how on earth did they get up there?

Hey Abri, they used a skyhook (see first entry)

Ah yes, thank you Dave :) What's even more amazing is that you can find the time to look up all these Wikipedia articles :-P

I posted that about 3 minutes after I woke up ;)

Well, I have lots of time for this stuff, while bobbing about on the ocean!