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Mass exodus of bats and dragonflies: the measurement and conservation of biodiversity

Mass exodus of bats and dragonflies: the measurement and conservation of biodiversity BIODIVERS I TY Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2011, 116–118 ON THE GROUND Reports from all over the world by conservationists and naturalists working on the ground Christoph Zockler United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK (Received 23 March 2011; final version received 14 June 2011) The Shwedagon Pagoda near the Centre of Yangon, It is not clear where these animals are flying, as they the capital of Myanmar, stands on a hill, ringed by continue until they are lost on the horizon, but we may smaller pagodas, a shining golden pinnacle of light assume they disperse across the vast delta around visible from far away both night and day. Its Yangon where rice growing and small farms predomi- magnificence rightly makes the building one of the nate. This rural landscape is still largely without most popular tourist attractions of the city. machines, and no pesticides or artificial fertilisers are But then every evening, after most of the tourists used. Oxen and water buffalo plough the fields so the have gone, a major natural spectacle occurs. Unknown rich delta soils do not need additional fertiliser. A huge to most and unmentioned in any of the travel http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biodiversity Taylor & Francis

Mass exodus of bats and dragonflies: the measurement and conservation of biodiversity

Zöckler, Christoph
Biodiversity , Volume 12 (2): 3 – Jun 1, 2011
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BIODIVERS I TY Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2011, 116–118 ON THE GROUND Reports from all over the world by conservationists and naturalists working on the ground Christoph Zockler United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK (Received 23 March 2011; final version received 14 June 2011) The Shwedagon Pagoda near the Centre of Yangon, It is not clear where these animals are flying, as they the capital of Myanmar, stands on a hill, ringed by continue until they are lost on the horizon, but we may smaller pagodas, a shining golden pinnacle of light assume they disperse across the vast delta around visible from far away both night and day. Its Yangon where rice growing and small farms predomi- magnificence rightly makes the building one of the nate. This rural landscape is still largely without most popular tourist attractions of the city. machines, and no pesticides or artificial fertilisers are But then every evening, after most of the tourists used. Oxen and water buffalo plough the fields so the have gone, a major natural spectacle occurs. Unknown rich delta soils do not need additional fertiliser. A huge to most and unmentioned in any of the travel

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