Thank you
jjohnwm
for the kind words, and thank you (again)
Rtc/tsn
for doing the right thing. And thank you ALL for considering this.
One more thing to be happy and proud of is that for whatever evolutionary reasons, North America contains the highest known diversity of freshwater mussels, higher than anywhere else in the world. This is something that is not true of a number of animal and plant groups. Whereas South America, Asia, and Africa have decent numbers of species, their biodiversity of FW mussels pale in comparison to the NorthAmerican mussel fauna, by far. Europe has the lowest diversity, with just a few species. So this is something to be proud of, but with it, should come the responsibility of contributing towards the urgent need to protect them. How? By getting to know about them, loving them, cleaning our waterways, loving the fish, combating the introduction of non-native species (of all types), curtailing pollution and habitat modification. Just getting to know about them goes a loooong way! Cheers!
One more thing to be happy and proud of is that for whatever evolutionary reasons, North America contains the highest known diversity of freshwater mussels, higher than anywhere else in the world. This is something that is not true of a number of animal and plant groups. Whereas South America, Asia, and Africa have decent numbers of species, their biodiversity of FW mussels pale in comparison to the NorthAmerican mussel fauna, by far. Europe has the lowest diversity, with just a few species. So this is something to be proud of, but with it, should come the responsibility of contributing towards the urgent need to protect them. How? By getting to know about them, loving them, cleaning our waterways, loving the fish, combating the introduction of non-native species (of all types), curtailing pollution and habitat modification. Just getting to know about them goes a loooong way! Cheers!