[APWG] NEWS: Moving on up
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Dec 5 14:02:08 CST 2007
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10199352&fsrc=RSS
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Moving on up
Nov 26th 2007
>From Economist.com
Conservationists have begun to broach a taboo
HUNDREDS of years ago, nobody worried about the deleterious effects of
deliberately transplanting species. When Europeans migrated overseas, they
brought wheat, barley, rye, cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats for food and
horses for transport. An angling society brought European fish to
Australia. A group of bardophiles introduced all the species of birds
Shakespeare mentioned into the United States. They released 100 pairs of
starlings in New York's Central Park; today it is one of America's most
common birds.
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