December webflash

Greater Flamingos, painted in the Camargue, France, by David Coleman

Art...

A new Enviro-art website has just been launched and you can enjoy all the paintings from the comfort of your own home. Browse around, and if you find a painting you would like to purchase, part of the price will support A Rocha’s work. However, this is not just a money-making venture. Enviro-art wants to showcase the work of young artists from around the world, encouraging talent and highlighting the beauty and vulnerability of the wildlife and habitats where they work.

Sabaki dunes near Mambrui

and Science

The A Rocha Conservation Science Review for 2005-2007 has just been published. If hawks in Canada, frogs in Lebanon, bats in Portugal, elephants in India, peonies in Bulgaria, butterflies in France or beetles in Kenya are of interest to you - read it online!

The Review features insect studies in the seashore, dunes and inland fringe habitats at Sabaki River Mouth, Kenya, revealing a high diversity of species, especially amongst bees and wasp, important as pollinators of local fruit and vegetable crops.