More birds than ever face extinction
Whooping Cranes remain endangered.
"As the 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals the scale of the escalating extinction crisis occurring across the planet, an unobtrusive parakeet from Mauritius is showing that, with funding and dedicated fieldworkers, species can recover from the brink of extinction. Released today, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals that unprecedented numbers of species are now threatened with extinction. For birds, the Red List is maintained by BirdLife International, who report that 1,221 species are considered threatened with extinction. The overall conservation status of the world's birds has deteriorated steadily since 1988, when they were first comprehensively assessed."
Link: Full Article from BirdLife International
Link: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Whooping Crane © 2007 Mike McDowell
posted by Mike McDowell @ 1:03 AM
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2 Comments:
I believe that same report (as I heard it on the radio) said that while 1 in 8 birds were threatened with extinction, 1 in 4 mammals were! -- rather stunning. We obsess over global warming because of the effect it will eventually have on our own human lives; meanwhile even without it our actions have already had calamitous, irreversible effects on the lives of others.
im really sad for those big birdies
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