I wanted to take a quick opportunity to draw attention to links from a couple of comments. First up is Carl Zimmer’s follow-up to my post about the ivory-billed woodpecker. In his original post at The Loom, Zimmer predicted that pretend-scientists would try to turn the rediscovery of the once-“extinct” woodpecker into an argument against the accepted ecological principle that habitat fragmentation is a threat to biodiversity. He promised to post any such antics, and has followed through .

In a comment on a more recent post by new user Japhet, I linked to an article from the Economist that got a lot of press on other ecoblogs, but which I didn’t have time to address. Hungry Hyaena commented on the article, and so I thought I’d add links to a couple other pieces that made it into the Economist. The first is from the same issue (April 21^st), and discusses the potential for reforesting the watershed above the Panama Canal in order to help sustain the water supply that keeps the canal open. The second article, from yesterday’s issue, is about dwindling fish stocks, regulation schemes, and the potential of aquaculture. Please discuss.