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€100 Million German Insect Protection Plan Will Protect Habitats, Restrict Weed Killers

posted by chromas on Sunday September 08 2019, @05:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the halting-evolution dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

In 2017, researchers reported a dramatic loss of insects in Germany’s nature reserves: 76% less biomass over 3 decades. Spurred by wide public concern about the findings, the federal government announced on 4 September a €100 million “action plan for insect protection,”[pdf] which includes at least €25 million a year for research and monitoring of insect populations.

“This takes several steps in the right direction,” says Lars Krogmann, an entomologist at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, who with colleagues last year published a nine-point plan with recommendations[pdf] for reversing insect population declines.

The government plan includes some of those recommendations, such as protecting insect habitats like meadows and hedges.

[...] The plan also promises to phase out all use of glyphosate, the world’s most common weed killer, by December 2023.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:10PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:10PM (#891422) Journal

    I wonder what's their plan for mosquito and ticks with encephalitis of all kinds that storming the area...

    Vaccination [eurosurveillance.org]

    Vaccination remains the most effective protective measure against TBE [27]. However, studies have reported vaccine failures, especially in older age groups [28]. We found that 87/5,205 (1.7%) of cases were supposedly vaccinated (at least two doses of vaccine), mostly in extreme age groups.

    As for "storming the area", me thinks you used a hyperbole for rhetorical purposes. The same link says:

    Over the 2012–2016 period, 23 countries reported 12,500 TBE cases (Ireland and Spain reported no cases), of which 11,622 (93.0%) were confirmed cases and 878 (7.0%) probable cases (Table 1)

    Now, while being taken seriously, TBE incidence is far from 'storming' in Europe; I'll let as a homework the computation of the infection/year, given that the Europe population is over 700M.

    since I'm using 3 years old, there is a slight chance I might be wrong, but I don't believe I am. If you have more recent numbers to show otherwise, I'd be happy to learn about (with the note they should've be posted as evidence by the parent post)

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