CovOps
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| Subject: Humans Caused 322 Animal Extinctions in Past 500 Years - Move along now, nothing to see here... Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:24 am | |
| Our species caused 322 animal extinctions over the past 500 years, with two-thirds of those occurring in the last two centuries, according to a paper published in a special issue of the journal Science this week.
Many animals are threatened with human-caused extinction now, with researchers expressing particular concern over amphibian and invertebrate (creatures without a backbone) losses. Numbers of the latter group have nearly halved as our population doubled in size over the past 35 years.
Ecologists, zoologists and other scientists believe that, without urgent steps to stem the losses, we are facing global scale tipping points from which we may never look back or recover.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/endangered-species/human-caused-322-animal-extinctions-in-past-500-years-140724.htm |
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RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Re: Humans Caused 322 Animal Extinctions in Past 500 Years - Move along now, nothing to see here... Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:27 am | |
| without urgent steps to stem the losses, we are facing global scale tipping points from which we may never look back or recover.
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CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Re: Humans Caused 322 Animal Extinctions in Past 500 Years - Move along now, nothing to see here... Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:41 am | |
| Oh the humanity...
Won't someone please think of the children?
No, not kiddie pr0n, but the regular, sexually deprived ones...
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