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...Click here for pictures of Madagascar's flora and fauna. Click here for pictures of primates on the danger list. See TIME's pictures of the week here...
...head of the fire department's Forestry and Environmental unit, Amorim's main tasks are saving lost hill walkers and fighting forest fires. But because his firehouse sits in the woods high above the city, every few days he gets calls from residents freaked out by fauna...
Barclay is not convinced that climate change is responsible for Britain's new inhabitants. European integration may be the cause. "It's very difficult to judge," Barclay says, "because the period of time we have seen global warming potentially influencing the insect fauna is almost exactly the same period of time since the [European Union] opened up its trade barriers between member states. So in the past decade and a half, we've been importing a lot more from Italy and Spain and Southern France, and we've had this climatic change--so we have two potential causes." Whatever...
...Barclay is not convinced that climate change is responsible for these new inhabitants. "It's very difficult to judge because the period of time we have seen global warming potentially influencing the insect fauna is almost exactly the same period of time since the [European Union] opened up its trade barriers between member states. So in the last decade and a half we've been importing a lot more from Italy and Spain and Southern France and we've had this climatic change - so we have two potential causes...
...Design, is also playing a role in the current trend. "If you look at the proliferation of [the designs] over the past few years, it goes with digital technologies that allow designers to do fairly complex kinds of patterning and laser cutting," he says. The intricate flora-and-fauna-filled curtains of Dutch designer Tord Boontje, who has made florals cool to a new generation, would be virtually impossible otherwise...