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International Botanical Congress Statement on Biodiversity
Cretaceous Period and the Mesozoic Era, which coincided with the loss of the last surviving dinosaurs. This was the fifth major extinction event in Earth history, a time when two-thirds of all terrestrial organisms that lived at that time disappeared and the character of life changed permanently. The current extinction ...
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March 2, 2004: The Sixth Great Extinction
Roughly 367 million years ago, once again many species of fish and 70 percent of marine invertebrates perished in a major extinction event. Then about 245 million years ago, up to 95 percent of all animals—nearly the entire animal kingdom—were lost in what is thought to be the worst extinction in ...
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March 5, 2002: Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing
Gorilla populations have dropped to dangerously low levels, largely from illegal commercial bushmeat hunting. ... To save other primates from being lost in what is considered the earth's sixth major extinction event, resources are needed to curb illegal logging and hunting. Illegal logging has ruined vast ...
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RANGE magazine - Features
The only way to halt that "extinction event," the statement suggests, is ... habitat restoration in order to head off what Michael Soulé says is the impending "sixth major extinction." Yet your emphasis is on wolves and grizzly bears, neither of which appear to be ...
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March 2005
Many scientists now estimate that our current biodiversity crisis could represent the sixth major extinction event in earth's history. This revelation has caused the global community to reevaluate efforts ... in 2003. Although the California condor recovery program proved successful in staving off certain extinction of a species, it does not necessarily serve as a model for all endangered ...
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The Politics of Extinction by Paul watson of sea shepherd
Sixty-five million years ago, a natural cataclysmic event resulted in extinction of the dinosaurs. Even with a plant ... strong timbers of the region. Rome was a major exporter of timber to Europe. The temple ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - Biology
We may very well being in the midst of another major mass extinction that fire using bipedal primates (homonids) have promolgated ... several hundred years has really been devestating to the planet; the past century was a major global extinction event in terms of this planets ecology. It is now estimated that the larger class ...
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Kind Planet Environmental Info - Biodiversity - Part of Our Environmental Forum
Once eliminated from the Earth, a species cannot be regained. Extinction is irreversible. Extinction is forever. Species extinction is a natural phenomenon, and ... Era, has been attributed to some cataclysmic physical event - a giant meteor strike or unusually active volcanoes. This last major extinction brought the Age of Dinosaurs to an end, ...
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Evolution, Mass Extinctions, and Mass Speciations
There are episodes in evolution when DNA underwent bursts ... mobile deep-water (benthic) types. Increased diversity occurs through time, and speciation follows each extinction event. Meanwhile, in spite of this overall increase of creatures, the number of four- ...
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EDGE of Existence :: Mammal Extinctions
Evolutionarily distinct species appear to be more threatened with extinction than expected by chance, and many have already disappeared forever. It is estimated that global extinction ...
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