Last Thursday, owners of Rabbit Island, a linkurl:pristine 36 acre environment;http://www.dkatantarctic.com/RabbitIsland.html off the coast of British Columbia that has taught many budding scientists about natural phenomena, voted to sell the island to the highest bidder. Professor Dennis Kelly of Orange Coast College in California has been taking students to Rabbit Island for years to demonstrate things most collegians only read about in textbooks -- island gigantism in the form of an enormous grasshopper, for instance. "Rabbit Island was really pristine," Kelly told me. But last-minute attempts to raise money from government grants or donations did not come through, and the island now must fall into someone else's hands. "Being given Rabbit Island was like being given the Galapagos. And that's irreplaceable." Kelly said the island was owned by the linkurl:Orange Coast;http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/about_occ/foundation/ Foundation, which supports the college, and received the island as a donation in 2002. The island linkurl:cost the Foundation;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/23277/...
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Wamiliki wa kisiwa cha Rabbit Island, kilicho karibu na pwani ya British Columbia, ambao umefundisha wanasayansi wengi kuhusu hali za asili, walipiga kura ya kuuza kisiwa hicho kwa mnunuzi wa juu zaidi. Profesa Dennis Kelly wa Chuo cha Orange Coast huko California amekuwa akiwapeleka wanafunzi kwenye Kisiwa cha Rabbit kwa miaka mingi kuonyesha vitu ambavyo wanafunzi wengi husoma tu katika vitabu vya masomo - gigantism ya kisiwa katika fomu ya nzige mkubwa, kwa mfano. Kelly aliniambia hivi: "Kisiwa cha Sungura kilikuwa safi sana". Lakini majaribio ya dakika ya mwisho ya kukusanya fedha kutoka kwa ruzuku au michango ya serikali hayakufanikiwa, na sasa kisiwa hicho lazima kianguke mikononi mwa mtu mwingine. "Kupewa Kisiwa cha Sungura kulikuwa kama kupewa Galapagos. Na hilo haliwezi kubadilishwa". "Kelie alisema kisiwa hicho kilikuwa ni mali ya shirika la ""Orange Coast Foundation"" ambalo linasaidia chuo hicho na lilipokea kisiwa hicho kama mchango mwaka 2002." "Kama ilivyoelezwa katika makala ya ""Ukaguzi wa Utafiti wa Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi ya Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi ya Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi ya Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi ya Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi ya Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti wa Sayansi"" ya ""Utafiti"" ya Sayansi." Je, ungependa kusoma zaidi? Kujiunga na TCS: Kupata upatikanaji kamili wa zaidi ya miaka 35 ya kumbukumbu, pamoja na TS Digest, matoleo ya dijiti ya The Scientist, makala, na mengi zaidi!