One In Five Mammals Threatened With Extinction
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Wed Nov 4, 2009 @ 1:09pm |
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A fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of amphibians and reptiles and more than two thirds of plants are threatened with extinction, according to the latest "Red List" of endangered species. [Some gorilla species are close to extinction, warns the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Of the 5,490 mammal species that have been identified by scientists, 79 are extinct or extinct in the wild, 188 are critically endangered, 449 are endangered and 505 are classed as vulnerable, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said. The annual Red List, published today, also shows that 70 per cent of identified planets, 35 per cent of invertebrates, 37 per cent of freshwater fish, 30 per cent of amphibians, 28 per cent of reptiles and 12 per cent of birds are under threat. The survival of a total of 17,921 species is in jeopardy. "This year's IUCN Red List makes for sobering reading," Craig Hilton-Taylor, manager of the IUCN Red List Unit, said. "These results are just the tip of the iceberg. We have only managed to assess 47,663 species so far; there are many more millions out there which could be under serious threat. "We do, however, know from experience that conservation action works so let's not wait until it's too late and start saving our species now." New additions to the register include the eastern voalavo, a mountain rodent from the tropical forests of Madagascar,which is endangered because of the threat from slash-and-burn farming. Two hundred and ninety-three reptiles have been added to the list this year, including 165 species from the Philippines alone. These include the Panay monitor lizard, which is endangered because of habitat loss caused by agriculture and logging, and people hunting it for food. The sail-fin water lizard, another species from the Philippines, is listed as vulnerable because of habitat loss and the collection of hatchlings for the pet trade and food. Among amphibians, the Kihansi spray toad, found near the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, has been moved from the critically endangered category to be declared extinct in the wild. The construction of a dam upstream of the Kihansi Falls has cut off 90 per cent of water flow to the gorge where the toad lives and it has also been affected by chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease that has wiped out or threatened many amphibian species worldwide. Chytridiomycosis has also contributed to the plight of Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog, from central Panama. The fungus was reported to be present in its habitat in 2006, and only a single male has been heard calling since then. Though some individuals survive in the wild, breeding programmes have so far failed. The tally of 2,639 threatened invertebrates includes 1,360 newly added damselflies and dragonflies, such as the giant jewel dragonfly of southeast Nigeria and southwest Cameroon, which is classed as vulnerable because of forest destruction. Jane Smart, director of the IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group, said: "The scientific evidence of a serious extinction crisis is mounting. January sees the launch of the International Year of Biodiversity. The latest analysis of the IUCN Red List shows the 2010 target to reduce biodiversity loss will not be met. "It's time for governments to start getting serious about saving species and make sure it's high on their agendas for next year, as we're rapidly running out of time." [ www.commondreams.org ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Wed Nov 4, 2009 @ 6:46pm |
 Coolness: 162615 | If they're too dumb to survive let them die.
Fuck pandas. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Wed Nov 4, 2009 @ 8:30pm |
 Coolness: 178760 | j'ai hâte que les humains soient en voie d'extinction |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FUCKERS replied on Wed Nov 4, 2009 @ 9:25pm |
| Coolness: 89855 | Originally Posted By AERIAL
j'ai hâte que les humains soient en voie d'extinction sa fait longtemps que les humains son sur la liste des especes en voix de dispariton man |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Wed Nov 4, 2009 @ 10:46pm |
| Coolness: 162615 | Yep. We're one push of a red button away from total extinction.
All we need is a mix of stupidity and bad day with someone in the right position of power. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» LeChat replied on Thu Nov 5, 2009 @ 8:46am |
 Coolness: 115650 | Originally Posted By STRANGEDAHLIA
If they're too dumb to survive let them die. Fuck pandas. mais les pandas cest pas des vrais animaux parce quils baisent pas. parce que sinon lexpressions "baiser comme des animaux" tiendrait pu :P DES ANIMAUX!!! DES AAANNNIIMMAUUUUXX!!!!! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Nov 7, 2009 @ 12:06am |
| Coolness: 106230 | Originally Posted By STRANGEDAHLIA
Yep. We're one push of a red button away from total extinction. All we need is a mix of stupidity and bad day with someone in the right position of power. Red button! If only it where that simple. There is no "red button" or rather we are all, collectively, the "red button" The predominant philosophy embraced by humans over the last few hundred years, the one aimed at maximizing production for the sake of profit, will be our undoing. It has not always been that way and it doesn't have to be that way. Stupidity is no match for well informed apathy when it comes to the collapse of a civilization. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Sat Nov 7, 2009 @ 11:49am |
| Coolness: 162615 | Originally Posted By DATABOY
The predominant philosophy embraced by humans over the last few hundred years, the one aimed at maximizing production for the sake of profit, will be our undoing. It has not always been that way and it doesn't have to be that way. Stupidity is no match for well informed apathy when it comes to the collapse of a civilization. +100K |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» MolocH replied on Sat Nov 7, 2009 @ 1:40pm |
 Coolness: 226390 | I read somewhere that in order to survive in the long term, a species of mammals needs approx 1.8 descendents per couple. For humans, we are holding around .6 children per couple. (Static couples, on top of it all).
So yeah, we are on the road to extinction. Akshually, we're already there. See it ain't so bad. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 8:20am |
 Coolness: 295090 | it's the shinning light of hope.... for earth. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 8:28am |
 Coolness: 685705 | Originally Posted By MOLOCH
I read somewhere that in order to survive in the long term, a species of mammals needs approx 1.8 descendents per couple. For humans, we are holding around .6 children per couple. (Static couples, on top of it all). So yeah, we are on the road to extinction. Akshually, we're already there. See it ain't so bad. Yeah, but for every 10 couples that have 0.6 kids, there's one redneck that's had 7 kids with his wife, 3 with his sister and 5 with his first girlfriend, 2 with his second, and 4 with the woman he's seeing on the side... Originally Posted By jojo_bizarre
it's the shinning light of hope.... for earth. man, fuck that. Who wants a perfect, clean, untouched planet? It's like all those collector nerds that collect action figures and keep them in the wrapper to preserve them being in mint condition, when they'd be making some kid somewhere so much happier if he was playing with it. The planet isn't meant to be one of those lonely toys that no one gets to play with! I say we do what we want, when we want, and totally trash it, but while ENJOYING what we're doing.. Fuck abstinence from anything, it's all about indulgence! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 8:45am |
| Coolness: 295090 | I didn't mean that we should do anything, I just meant that we are the problems. Problems is we are also the solution :D |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 9:14am |
| Coolness: 685705 | Who needs a solution?
The earth has been around for billions of years; it's been bombarded by meteors, had millions of years of volcanic eruptions, gone through million-year-long ice-ages.. A little polution, plastic, depleted ozone layer, etc.. is to the planet what getting a cold is to us. I find it incredible how we, who've been poluting and 'destroying' the planet for less than 200 years, have the ego to think that we're a threat to the planet. The planet is going to be fine; it'll adapt, that's what it does. Us, on the other hand... we're the ones that are fucked! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 9:22am |
| Coolness: 295090 | Yup the planet will survive, but we are not going to be part of it :D |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 9:31am |
| Coolness: 685705 | See, that's OUR problem, not the planet's problem.
I mean, there have been how many billions of different animal species and different forms of life on this planet? Sure, one in five mammals is threatened with extinction, but roughly 12 species go extinct daily, without our help! 1100 species went extinct in 2008! It's how nature works! Gets rid of the useless stuff that we don't need anymore to make room for the new evolutions! But we've got this god complex and this incredible EGO.. We see ourselves as a threat to the WHOLE PLANET because we're just SO fucking powerful and amazing that we decide to do stupid shit like try to save species that have run their course and are due to die (like the Pandas, who just don't want to reproduce anymore) We need to start leaving shit alone and let nature run it's course, a nature that we (and, consequently, our pollution and species destruction) are a part of. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 9:49am |
| Coolness: 295090 | Fuck it, je ne sais pas trop comment le dire en anglais, mais notre EGO d.place notre vu sur le problème.
Au lieu de voir que c'est notre problème on dit que c'est le problème de la planète. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 9:57am |
| Coolness: 106230 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
man, fuck that. Who wants a perfect, clean, untouched planet? The planet isn't meant to be one of those lonely toys that no one gets to play with! I say we do what we want, when we want, and totally trash it, but while ENJOYING what we're doing.. Fuck abstinence from anything, it's all about indulgence! The planet is meant to support life for a great number of living species all interdependent, not to serve as a toy for the humans. You seem all tough and all when it comes to raping nature, but why is it you cant indulge in simple pleasures like smoking a joint? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 10:31am |
 Coolness: 102880 | The 'why' would mankind wants to save the planet is for selfish reasons. Well, that's my motive. Is the black rhino in Africa affecting my success at a career? No. Does it affect me? hell yeah, it makes me unhappy they're slaughtered for their horns (because of some altruistic genes I have).
People want to save the planet because human realized we need it more than it needs us. We want our paradise and it's only, almost too late, that we're realizing that we're fucking up. We underestimated the value of biodiversity that brings us happiness. But LIFE itself, no matter how good We think we are at "killing" it, will continue. Planet Earth saw way worse. In cosmic time, or even in geological time, we're just a blink. Life, new Life, species, will proliferate, 'cause it doesn't really care about time. [ science.nasa.gov ] Somehow, most of the life on Earth perished in a brief moment of geologic time roughly 250 million years ago. Scientists call it the Permian-Triassic extinction or "the Great Dying" ... Whatever happened during the Permian-Triassic period was much worse: No class of life was spared from the devastation. Trees, plants, lizards, proto-mammals, insects, fish, mollusks, and microbes -- all were nearly wiped out. Roughly 9 in 10 marine species and 7 in 10 land species vanished. Life on our planet almost came to an end. In sum, to save the planet is to save ourselves, 'cause Earth and its life will do just fine without us. See also: Earth: The Biography |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Mon Nov 9, 2009 @ 1:15pm |
| Coolness: 106230 | Originally Posted By TREY
The 'why' would mankind wants to save the planet is for selfish reasons. In sum, to save the planet is to save ourselves, 'cause Earth and its life will do just fine without us. Thats a good enough reasom for me. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Thu Nov 19, 2009 @ 5:22pm |
 Coolness: 93610 | Originally Posted By STRANGEDAHLIA
If they're too dumb to survive let them die. Fuck pandas. The real question is how tasty the animals are. If they are tasty, then obviously they deserved to be saved from extinction. Could you imagine a world without beef ribs? Or Steak? Or Poutine? Clearly some animals, no matter how dumb, must be saved from extinction. |
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