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Guardian: The modern world is experiencing a “sixth great extinction” of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are considered, scientists have warned.
The rate of extinction for species in the 20th century was up to 100 times higher than it would have been without man’s impact, they said.
Many conservationists have been warning for years that a mass extinction event akin to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs is occurring as humans degrade and destroy habitats.
But the......
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Humans creating sixth great extinction animal species, say scientists
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 19th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation