Extinction Crisis
October 27th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
A study just publicized by the IUCN confirms that there is a current global extinction crisis with one-fifth of our world’s vertebrate (backboned) animal species threatened. The study used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to investigate how the populations of mammals, birds, amphibia...
Tags: biodiversity, black footed ferret, Conservation, crisis, E O Wilson, extinction, IUCN, Nagoya, Red List
November 10th, 2009 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
The name “Hundred Heartbeat Club” was first used by E.O. Wilson in “Vanishing Before Our Eyes”, and refers to species that “literally have fe...
Tags: 100 Hearbeats, bushmeat, condor, Conservation, E O Wilson, endangered, Jeff Corwin, rhino, wild animals
