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Chemical Sprays: 57 years since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and what have we learned?

August 20, 2019 by Leora

It has been 57 years since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a book urging governments and people to stop the use of chemicals to deter ‘pests’ and control nature. At the height of the chemical revolution, DDT was seen as a key component in humanity’s ‘battle against nature’. Leftover chemicals from the war were used on …

Turtle Research in Full Swing in The Land Between

July 3, 2019 by Leora

Since early June The Land Between through the Turtle Guardians program and Scales Nature Park have been involved in turtle-research. Ecologists and biologists have been hired for the summer to “run the roads” across Simcoe, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Haliburton, north Peterborough, and City of Kawartha Lakes to assess where and how many turtles are travelling, …

Chemical Sprays: 57 years since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and what have we learned?

Turtle Research in Full Swing in The Land Between

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