Excellent article on wine & conservation

Most wine lovers would agree that the best wines are born from grapes grown in the world's small yet extremely biologically rich pockets of Mediterranean habitat — around the Mediterranean Sea, on the coasts of California and Chile and on the southern edges of Africa and Australia.

But for conservation scientists, those same wines symbolize both a potential threat and opportunity for this most imperiled of global habitat types.

Now, South Africa is showing the world that wine growing may be made more compatible with wildlife and wildflower conservation — and that being conservation-minded also gives its wines an edge in a competitive global market.

That’s just the start. Please follow the link below to read the rest of the article…

http://www.nature.org/tncscience/misc/art25803.html