Hello, folks, and sorry for the lull in posts. I’m going to take off my biologist hat for a while, and put on my conservation hat for a while. I’ve told you a lot about my research on Pelargonium, but that’s actually only one of two theses I’m working on – the other is on
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Adeline Tiffanie Suwana, a 2009 Eco-Hero Award winner, was recently invited by the Indonesian government as a youth delegate to the United Nations Frameworks Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico. In October, the United Nations Environmental Programme selected Adeline to attend the International Children’s Conference on Biodiversity, held in Nagoya, Japan.
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One fish, two fish, red fish…449 other fish!

“Biodiversity” is a term that’s somewhat hard to define…if you break it down, “bio” = life and “diversity” = variety. So “biodiversity” is basically just the variety of life, right? Well, yes, but it’s often not so simple to measure that variety. I’ll give you an example. I’m part of a research project studying a genus of
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