Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
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Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#2I don't know of any studies to prove it is true, but I suspect that the US Midwest (in particular) has had a similar decline. Anecdotally I can say that there are certainly far fewer insects here than there were in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up, and also that there seem to be far fewer birds.
I wonder if we'll stop dumping this stuff into the environment before it's too late. It would require a whole new way of thinking about the industrial scale agriculture we have developed over the last 50 years, so I'm a little pessimistic.
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#3I don't know of any studies to prove it is true, but I suspect that the US Midwest (in particular) has had a similar decline. Anecdotally I can say that there are certainly far fewer insects here than there were in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up, and also that there seem to be far fewer birds. I wonder if we'll stop dumping this stuff into the environment before it's too late. It would require a whole new way…
There's an article related to this titled "Where have all the insects gone?" which discusses the "windshield phenomenon" where far fewer bugs are winding up on the windshields of vehicles.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insec...
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#4In some nature protected areas in Germany, researchers [1] have reported a 75% decline in flying insects over 27 years. Study is from Oct 2017. This is alarming.
[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#5GMO anyone?
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#6GMO anyone?
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Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#7GMO anyone?
I thought GMOs were illegal in the EU, of which France is a part of
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#8GMO anyone?
Somehow I don’t see domesticated plants killing off insects. Monocultures, maybe. Why not pesticides?
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#9GMO anyone?
I thought GMOs were illegal in the EU, of which France is a part of
I didn't know that. And it's not all of Europe but France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece, and Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_Europe#...
Re: Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years
#10GMO anyone?
Pesticides, rather.