Biodiversity
International year of biodiversity 2010
- In this video watch a team of Natural History Museum scientists on location in Borneo as they survey the incredible diversity of insects and other invertebrates
Classification
In this Crash Course Biology video Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things
Variation
Evolution
A fantastic video on the evolution of Homer Simpson
- A selection of evolution videos to get you thinking about science and evolution.
- Human evolution has stopped - a radio programme from 7th October 2008. It is an interview with a geneticist talking about why he thinks human evolution has stopped.
Interesting 15 minute video about extracting DNA from fossilised plants
A Channel 4 news story about a creationist museum opened in Kentucky, USA
Evolution vs. Creationism: Listen to the Scientists
- An article from the BBC on Falcons 'rapidly evolved' hunting skills
- Natural History Museum video about strange life forms evolvingin the peat bogs of Asia
Conservation
Take a look at the captive breeding programme of the rafetus turtle in China
The Millennium Seed Banks at Kew
TED Talk highlights the importance of seed banks an example of ex situ conservation
A longer video about the reasons for conserving biodiversity and the problems with putting this into action
- From the BBC ' Bangkok breakthrough gives CITES a bigger stick
- BBC article on Saving lions from the threat of extinction
- Biological Sciences Review article on endangered animals
- “Should Pandas be left to go extinct?” from the Guardian.
- Are tigers less important than warblers? by Madhusudan Katti
- 1/3 of all plant species face extinction, from the Guardian.
- Recovery of ‘extinct’ fur seal populations, from the Guardian
- Back BioDiversity 100, save our wildlife, from Monbiot
- The longest-running, largest experiment in habitat fragmentation – since 1976 in Brazil – is a great example of real cology in action. Read about it here. What are the real impacts of breaking up habitats?
- Natural History Museum plant expert talks on this video about plant under pressure
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In this TED Talk we discover how the activation of some the biggest stakeholders on the land in Namibia – the poachers –turned a huge problem into an effective in situ conservation effort that acts as a role model for active management to the rest of the world.