2008/10/07

We Are Too Many: 1/4 of World's Mammals Face Extinction

One Quarter of World's Mammals Face Extinction: Scientific American:

" Deforestation, along with hunting or gathering food are the prime causes of the rapid declines in land mammals, such as elephants in Asia; most endangered marine mammals, like the vaquita in Mexico's Gulf of California, are killed by fishing nets, ship strikes or pollution."
"Vast tracts of tropical rainforest have been replaced by palm oil plantations for food and biofuels, satellite imagery reveals."

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