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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Humans Now Wiping Out Species at 1,000 Times the Natural Rate

From Treehugger:

borneo orangutan photo
The Borneo Orangutan, one of the most endangered species in the world.

Eight years ago, world governments made a pledge to put a halt to growing biodiversity loss by 2010. They have not succeeded. The ongoing loss of biodiversity has instead become even more severe of a threat to the planet's once-balanced ecosystems--it's become a full-on extinction crisis. Thanks to human development and expansion, species are now going extinct exponentially faster than ever before--they're dying out at the frightening speed of 1,000 times the natural rate.

Humans Now Wiping Out Species at 1,000 Times the Natural Rate

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