In this final video in a three-part series based around the documentary Up in Smoke on a way of halting slash-and-burn farming in the Honduran rainforest, we look at how farmers who have tried a sustainable and organic method of farming are spreading the message to their community, and demonstrating the benefits of the new technique
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"The study, funded by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and published in the journal Environmental Pollution, is one of the first to document the effects of herbicides on butterflies. Several studies have shown herbicides can adversely affect animal life, even though they are designed to kill plants. Since each herbicide in the Behr’s metalmark research has a different mode of action, Dr. Stark speculates that their toxic effects may be due to inert ingredients contained but not identified in the formulations, or indirect effects on food plant quality. Of the three herbicides studied, refuge managers now use only triclopyr, mainly on woody plants and trees in areas far away from prime butterfly habitat." Delete the scoop?
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