1 in 4 mammals will be extinct
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I agree. It is sad indeed.
I read that in our newspaper today. We have tarsiers here that are facing extinction. Capturing them to breed is out of the question due to their suicidal tendency by banging their head on the wall so the choice is pretty much left to breeding them in their domains while trying to barricade those areas from poachers.
The article pointed out rightly 'I think the bottom line is, what kind of a world do you want to leave for your children?' Restoring more specimens is expensive as well apparently and most diseases that are afflicting the specimens are getting highly pathogenic which can threaten mass extinctions. One example is of the Tasmanian devils where the cancer affecting them is highly pathogenic apparently.
I read that in our newspaper today. We have tarsiers here that are facing extinction. Capturing them to breed is out of the question due to their suicidal tendency by banging their head on the wall so the choice is pretty much left to breeding them in their domains while trying to barricade those areas from poachers.The article pointed out rightly 'I think the bottom line is, what kind of a world do you want to leave for your children?' Restoring more specimens is expensive as well apparently and most diseases that are afflicting the specimens are getting highly pathogenic which can threaten mass extinctions. One example is of the Tasmanian devils where the cancer affecting them is highly pathogenic apparently.
it's just the begining of the end of us,.....there will be the weaker humans first then all the way to nothingness
So many people are disconnected from nature that they really don't care if something goes extinct or even why.
welcome to nature, people...
things have been going extinct since day freaking one.. do you think a SINGLE species of animal that was here at the beginning of time is here now?
no. except maybe the cockroach. dirty buggers.
e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n.
the only difference now, is that us humans, who cannot accept any sort of change as a society, weren't here before to whine about it.
the reality is, no species is here forever. the earth is not here forever. climate change is inevitable. you read every day about "oh my, the 3rd strain of buterfly has been classified as extinct this month", while you'll never see that there were 4 new species discovered the day before that. why? cuz the internet media isnt going to get as much of a rise out of it.
sorry to be the one that sounds like he doesnt care... i do. but we as humans are being foolish to think that we are going to put a stop to any of this.
things have been going extinct since day freaking one.. do you think a SINGLE species of animal that was here at the beginning of time is here now?
no. except maybe the cockroach. dirty buggers.
e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n.
the only difference now, is that us humans, who cannot accept any sort of change as a society, weren't here before to whine about it.the reality is, no species is here forever. the earth is not here forever. climate change is inevitable. you read every day about "oh my, the 3rd strain of buterfly has been classified as extinct this month", while you'll never see that there were 4 new species discovered the day before that. why? cuz the internet media isnt going to get as much of a rise out of it.
sorry to be the one that sounds like he doesnt care... i do. but we as humans are being foolish to think that we are going to put a stop to any of this.
Im not going to disagree that its a natural process but you have to at least recognize that our species is the major tipping point in alot of these species going extinct. Also evolution is defined as-Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species. So animals going extinct is not evolution it is extinction. Darwin termed natural selection for this process when it occurs naturally. However it isnt really natural selection now because a significant portion of these animals are being forced into extinction by human beings not due to naturally occuring phenomenon.
Define natural...Are we, as humans, not a natural part of the planet's ecosystem? Many people seem to think that the human population is above and beyond the day to day happenings in the planet's environment, rather than a participant whether we like it or not. If an introduced species outcompetes another species for food and the lesser species goes extinct, is that not natural selection either? Survival of the fittest. As Jon said, I'm not saying that I don't care about anything that happens to this planet. Humans have had a large impact on the environment, but I think it is incredibly arrogant to think that, as a very small part of the natural world, that we can and should fully expect to keep the planet as a whole in some sort of stasis where nothing ever changes. Eventually something will come along and either outcompete humans or just kill all (or at least most) of us off, and the universe will continue on.