WHAT WE LEARNT LAST MONTH….

Presents news briefs on ecology as of October 1, 2005. Decrease in the number of woodland flower species in Great Britain between 1971 and 2001; Information on the willingness of the Staffordshire County Council, in England to pay someone a salary of £30,000 a year to tell people in the area to turn lights and computers off; Decision of government in Mumbai, India to ban plastic bags in a bid to stop the flooding in the city.