Nature – Global-scale assessment of the effectiveness of a key conservation tool.
Source: Measuring the ecological benefits of protected areas
This is an important article! In the image above, the lines to the left are bad. The longer to the left the worse it is. The blue lines are symbolic of our National Parks. The blue lines do not extend as far to the left and show less degradation of biodiversity. It is important that even in protected areas most blue lines are to the left and show a reduction in biodiversity.
Our national parks are one of the last bastions of biological diversity. And yet the Park officials are drastically increasing their pesticide use. One of the main issues with our current over use of pesticides _in_ our national parks is the National Park Service NPS’s claim that the parks have to “battle” all the invasive species.
And yet the reality is exactly the opposite of that!
The national parks are the best area to allow their relatively large native biodiversity time! Time for our native biology to evolve and control the invasive species. Even time for the invasive species to evolve and coexist with the native natural environment. Our national parks are losing biodiversity everyday to pesticide use. The more biodiversity there is the more opportunity the native biology has to evolve and control the invasive species.
The Pesticide industrial Complex is manipulating the idea of invasive species in order to increase their profit from toxic chemicals. It is almost a certainty that the pesticides are worse than even the invasive species. I have pointed out many, many times that roundup was originally described as an antibiotic and yet the first thing the “Save This Or That Area group does is spray the whole thing with Roundup to “kill off the _invasive species_.” This destruction of the soil food web and wetland microbial habitat is virtually guaranteed to prevent any true restoration. And then holy smokes in 10 or 20 years it’s magically all a mess and just _has_ to be drained, leveled, and built on. I have started a permaculture sustainability project to identify, quantify, and analyze pesticide use in our national parks if you would like to be part of this project please contact me.
The best to you all.