Quotes of the day - October 26, 2009
“If you ask can I protect the city, the answer is no. Can I reduce the risk? Yes.”
Robert Van Antwerp, chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, discusses the risk of future flooding in New Orleans (Guardian).
“What is the point of having marine conservation zones to protect fragile species if there is no barrier to damage caused by fishing?”
Melissa Moore, of the Marine Conservation Society, comments on a possible loophole in UK legislation to establish marine conservation zones that could let fishermen continue to catch inside them (Times).
“It would take other work to try and reconstruct the reef so that you can start the process of building up a reef again. That is something that needs to be looked at in detail, but we can definitely store the species and save them in that way.”
Simon Harding, of the Zoological Society of London, comments on plans to create a doomsday vault of corals frozen in liquid nitrogen in case the worst comes to the worst for our reefs (BBC).
