The stay at home orders and fear of a pandemic caused a run on groceries. Several countries-imposed food export restrictions and collectively this elicited news stories recalling the great food shortage situation in 2006/07. That “shortage” started when India had a short rice crop and the Philippines, followed by many other countries, stared importing extra grain to build food security stocks. The price of rice more than tripled. That was then, but not now when it comes to the available buffer supply of grain. Back in 2006/07, the world carryover for rice had fallen in half compared to 2002 and the surplus of wheat had made a similar decline. But global ending stocks of rice are now at 34 percent, more than double the 2006/07 l...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.