There is a better system. Scientific progress means that positive change is possible.Ecological farmingre-connects people with food through farmers, using science to enhance and sustain biodiversity and its healthier harvests. Whileindustrial farming ignoresthe drastic consequences of climate change and adds to them, ecological farming works with a world in a state of flux, and always with the future in mind.
Today, progressive ecological techniques,togetherwith individual daily choices empower us to farm, cook, eat and change thefutureof food, together.
SCIENTIFIC NAME:Icteria virens POPULATION: 14 million TREND: Decreasing HABITAT: Breeds in dense, shrubby habitats; found in similar habitat during migration and on wintering grounds
Describing the unique Yellow-breasted Chat, ornithologist Arthur Cleveland Bent observed: “A medley of strange sounds, musical and otherwise, catcalls, whistles, and various bird notes coming from points now here, now there in the bushes will betray the presence of this furtive and elusive clown among birds.”
The Yellow-breasted Chat’s “song” is a weird and wonderful mix of cackles, clucks, whistles, and hoots. It may mimic other birds’ songs and even sings at night. The birds often vocalize from deep inside the densest cover, sometimes sounding as if they are laughing at the frustrated birders trying to locate them. But chats also sing while making conspicuous, bouncy, spread-tailed display flight
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Give the Congo Basin Forest a chance. TheCongo Basin Forestdoes not only shelter millions of local people and endangered animals but protects all of us from climate change. Will you let the world’s second largest rainforestdisappearat the hands of industrial logging and agribusiness?
In recent years, the rate ofdeforestationin the Congo Basin Forest, the world’s second largest tropical rainforest, has increased at an alarming rate. Theinadequate controlover the forest sector and increased demands from international markets have created the perfect scenario for agribusiness and industrial logging to expand and exhaust forest resources. People who once lived harmoniously with the forests are now faced withworsening povertyand conflicts over land.