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.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday September 08 2019, @05:45PM (3 children)
I wonder what's their plan for mosquito and ticks with encephalitis of all kinds that storming the area...
A park next to me was just bombed from helicopters for Eastern Encephalitis and West Nile virus. I hike and run the area at least twice a week and bitten all the time.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @05:55PM
The plan is to eat them as food: http://www.insecteurope.com/ [insecteurope.com]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 08 2019, @06:13PM
The eradication of diseases takes top priority!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/a7/63/7da763e3fd20638e158b3767358f917d.jpg [pinimg.com]
https://www.duurzamestudent.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/humans.jpg [duurzamestudent.nl]
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b7/8a/78/b78a783dff2f049ce419074ad5fd6394--global-warming-climate-change.jpg [pinimg.com]
https://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/steve-cutts-illustrations-art-todays-world-society-17.jpg [digitalsynopsis.com]
http://media.ifunny.com/results/2012/11/01/nzwn2adnl9.jpg [ifunny.com]
https://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/163047-humanevolution.jpg [destructoid.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:10PM
Vaccination [eurosurveillance.org]
As for "storming the area", me thinks you used a hyperbole for rhetorical purposes. The same link says:
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 08 2019, @06:21PM (7 children)
I will dedicate every last dying breath to fighting globalists who do not believe in free speech.
Do you hear me, motherfuckers?
I'm going to ensure that you're ground up like beef, and I will feast from your ashes!
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @06:27PM (1 child)
Dafuq you drinking today, EF? You got some of that wood alcohol? (alcohol distilled from the juices of Jew morning wood)
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @07:32PM
Morning wood juice is syrupy.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by takyon on Sunday September 08 2019, @06:34PM
Your weed stash is safe.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @07:28PM
You last words will be "Noooooooooo!!!! Aaaaaaarrrrrgghhh!!!!!!"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @08:54PM
Cause of death: trampled by Jewish cows.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:14PM
Just from curiosity, how many dying breath do you (think you) have?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Pslytely Psycho on Monday September 09 2019, @04:17AM
Damn but you're lazy.
Waiting until you're on your deathbed to do something.
Yeah, lot's to fear there man.
Typical alcoholic.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @09:53PM (2 children)
When your immigrant population rises, insect populations tend to follow. With its large Muslim population Germanistan has nothing to worry about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:00PM
Nuclear cockroaches taste spicy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:37AM
Due to the sudden increase in dead bodies to eat?
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:48PM
What's Bayer's annual profit on neonicotinoids?
Dunno, but by 2009 biotech lobbying expenditures exceeded $70M annually...
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:05PM
you mean poisoning everything like a fucking idiot is bad for the ecosystem? i'm glad we have those smart germans to figure this shit out for us slave states poisoning our kids into autism and cancer.