Hacker News with Generative AI: Biodiversity

'The dead zone is real': why US farmers are embracing wildflowers (theguardian.com)
Between two corn fields in central Iowa, Lee Tesdell walks through a corridor of native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Crickets trill as dickcissels, small brown birds with yellow chests, pop out of the dewy ground cover.
Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than thought (phys.org)
Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe is three times more harmful to biodiversity than previously assumed.
Why are Indian and African wildlife so similar? (wanderingthru.com)
How and why is Indian and African wildlife so similar? This is a question that we as guides often get asked when guests are interested in exploring these two special places. This not only includes the large mammals, but birds and vegetation too.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy (theconversation.com)
Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change.
Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists (bbc.com)
Scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the UN biodiversity summit, COP 16, draws to a close.
Species in Pieces (species-in-pieces.com)
30 species. 30 pieces. 1 fragmented survival.
Botanists identify 33 global 'dark spots' with unknown plants (theguardian.com)
Botanists have identified 33 “dark spots” around the world where thousands of plant species are probably waiting to be discovered, according to new research.
No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories (nature.com)
A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to support.
Where are all the butterflies? (butterfly-conservation.org)
Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020) (science.org)
There are more than 1k varieties of banana, and we eat one of them (theguardian.com)
“No Mow May“ Won't Fix Our Biodiversity Problems (motherjones.com)
Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills (bbc.com)
Conservation actions are effective at reversing biodiversity loss (phys.org)
World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts (theguardian.com)