11 January 2007

European Space Agency Goes for Biodiversity




Even as NASA is reducing its formal interest in Planet Earth the Europeans are stepping it up. Yesterday it was annaounce that the European Space Agency was initiating a new project to protect biodiversity. Their efforts to puruse a Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (image above) may serve as a great model for how the largest economic and scientific nations can contribute to local efforts in smaller countries. Certainly, the remote sensing imagery and expertise that they can lend is significant.

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