I don't know if bees are being wiped out or not, and I don't have
any economic stake in the issue, but using number of colonies as proxy for population size is bad statistics and therefore bad science.
Participants will engage, for the first time,
in a complex, high -
stakes, role - playing game that will cast them as representatives of two neighboring countries seeking to sort through difficult conservation, biodiversity, and
economic development
issues, according to Peter McGrath of TWAS, the course coordinator.