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The Southland Scarab?
 The Southland Scarab?
Sheep and cattle produce manure but the New Zealand environment has no indiginous insects to help break the manure down as there are in other areas where large land mammals evolved like Africa and Asia.
Finally dung beetles are being introduced to New Zealand – 150 years later – better late than never. This is a small example of the type of system thinking that organic farming and permaculture practice. It will help reduce nutrient run-off and therefore improve water quality, it will improve soil health and therefore productivity and it will also reduce carbon emissions. All of this in a natural, sustainable manner.
Sheep and cattle are hardly the uncontrollable menace that other introduced animals, such as rabbits, possums and ferrets are, but due to their shear numbers, and size, they have a huge impact on our environment and the dung beetles will go some way to helping deal with their waste.
Read the stuff.co.nz article
Posted by Michael Lockhart on 27th February, 2011 | Comments | Trackbacks
Tags: General Sustainability
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