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Earth Debates
On April 26th, I was lucky enough to be invited by the British Council to attend the Earth Debates closing debate and dinner at the Natural History Museum in London. These debates focussed international discussion in the lead-up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The four debates centre on how we plan a future that nurtures a healthy world alongside the needs of a growing population. There's not an easy answer to that!
I would advise EVERYONE, who has an interest in how we can feed the growing population without completely destroying our planet and its other inhabitants, to watch the debates which are available online by following these links:
1) Ecosystem economics: can we put a price on nature?
2) Beyond GDP - how can we measure progress?
3) Green cities in a green economy - how to pioneer a sustainable transition?
4) Food security - how do we feed 9 billion people by 2050?
For more discussion, follow this link to the discussion board.
Springwatch 2012
I recently filmed for BBC1's 'Springwatch' where I went delving into a habitat that most people would overlook to unearth some extraordinary animal behaviour. It will be broadcast as an insert film during BBC Springwatch 2012.


New publications
Beynon, S.A. (2012)
Potential environmental consequences of administration of anthelmintics
to sheep, Veterinary Parasitology, doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.03.040.
Beynon, S.A. (2012)
Potential environmental consequences of administration of
ectoparasiticides to sheep, Veterinary Parasitology,
doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.03.041.
If you are not able to access these articles online, please email me for pdf's.
New publication
Wall, R. & Beynon, S. (2012) Area-wide impacts of macrocyclic parasiticides in cattle dung. Medical & Veterinary Entomology. 26 (1), 1-8. Please follow this link to the online version of the article.
Welsh Black bull for sale!
We have a superb, quiet 22 month old Welsh Black bull for sale from our Tyddewi Herd of Welsh Black cattle. Dam - Tyddewi Alwyn, Sire - Tyddewi Andy (sold as breeding bull). Photos are more information will be added shortly. Follow this link for more information about the herd.
Not quite "all about beetles" news, but he did produce some spectacular dung for my dung beetle experiments last year!
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