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Extinction Resources: Information, Opinion, Ideas, & Questions

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Extinction Information Resources

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Stopping human-caused extinction of Earth’s plant and animal species is the greatest challenge of our time. This post provides access to the latest articles on extinction. The first item (Ceballos et al. 2015) is the latest detailed report on what we know and how we acquired the information.

 Ceballos, Gerardo, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky, Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle, and Todd M. Palmer. 19 June 2015. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. Science Advances Vol. 1, no. 5 (e1400253, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253). Corresponding author. E-mail: gceballo@ecologia.unam.mx.

More than a thousand recent articles are linked to my blog (https://garryrogers.com/blog):

Causes of Extinction

My blog covers the things that people do to cause extinctions and reduce biodiversity. These deeds of ours are woven into individual and our collective habits and beliefs. Stopping them will alter our society and our culture. It will be difficult. Our population must be reduced, our food choices must change, and our resource harvest must decline. Nothing less will succeed. Search the blog using the following terms for recent reports:  Burning, Coal, Construction, Deforestation, Desertification, Energy, Farming, Fishing, Fracking, Grazing, Hunting, Invasive Species, Logging, Mining, Oil, Pesticides, Pet Trade, Pollution, Population, Roads, and Soil.

Climate change will become the major cause of extinction.  Here’s its search link on my blog:  Climate Change.

For more reading, my Internet newsletters include a wider variety of articles than my blog.

The looming DARK Act

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“The Monsanto-backed bill to undercut GMO labeling efforts just got worse. Faced with increased push-back at state and local levels, the pesticide/biotech corporation — and its allies in Congress — are attempting to further limit choice in the food and farming system.

“In this latest version of what critics have dubbed the “Denying American’s Right to Know” or DARK Act, industry has snuck in a provision that would limit the authority of local government to create rules on genetically engineered (GE) crops. A House vote is scheduled for Thursday.

“Worried that nearby GE crops might cross-pollinate and contaminate your fields or threaten your organic certification? Tough luck. Want to know what’s being grown nearby? Too bad. Want to protect schoolchildren from pesticides applied on GE crops nearby? Suck it up.”  Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.panna.org

GR:  This keeps happening because there are congressmen waiting in line with their hands out.  Set low limits on campaign spending, eliminate campaign finance by private companies, and dynamite the revolving door.

Fate of the Crowfoot Valley Prairie Dog Colony

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by Deanna Meyer, Deep Green Resistance, Colorado.  When we visited the Crowfoot site to confirm the mass annihilation of the last large colony of prairie dogs in the Castle Rock area, we found that all the burrows were packed hard as concrete. I tried to shovel out the burrows but could not because they were …

Sourced through Scoop.it from: deepgreenresistancesouthwest.org

GR:  This is what we’ve always done with wild animals in our way. Now that there aren’t many prairie dogs left, we don’t stop.

Here’s More Proof Earth Is in Its 6th Mass Extinction

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Diverse animals across the globe are slipping away and dying as Earth enters its sixth mass extinction, a new study finds.  Sourced through Scoop.it from: news.yahoo.com

The Unseen Extinction Wiping Out the World’s Wildlife

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Researchers find that species we ignore, such as snails, are disappearing at a rapid pace—a sign that a mass extinction is upon us.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.takepart.com

CDFW celebrates “Endangered Species Day” as it hastens species extinction : Indybay

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You just can’t make this stuff up – a government agency like the California Department of Fish and Wildlife “celebrating” National Endangered Species Day when it appears to be doing everything it can to benefit agribusiness and other corporate interests at the expense of endangered species, along with a host of fish and wildlife species not formally listed under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts!  Source: www.indybay.org

GR:  Government hypocrisy?  It’s the money, of course.  Most politicians and many government employees seek public office for personal gain.  They do what they can to associate with money and influence.

‘Urgent’ crowdfunding campaign hopes to help save three native Australian birds

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“An international campaign begins to help save three native parrots at risk of extinction.

“The swift parrot, forty-spotted pardalote and orange-bellied parrot are all Australian native birds under threat from predatory sugar gliders.

“The swift parrot breeds in Tasmania during spring and summer, nesting in old trees with hollows.

“They migrate to south-eastern Australia during the cooler months, but many are not surviving long enough to make the journey.

“Logging in Tasmania has meant the tiny birds share their breeding habitat with sugar gliders.”

Source: www.abc.net.au

GR:  Logging and consequent habitat loss have forced competition among bird species that is driving these three toward extinction.  Money is needed to erect nest boxes on offshore islands so numbers can climb.

Why wild giraffes are suffering a ‘silent extinction’

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The iconic animals have declined 40 percent in just 15 years, a plight that has gone largely unnoticed until recently.

Source: www.mnn.com

GR:  This first appeared in December (2014).  Does anyone know of programs that are helping giraffes?  Ah, here’s a link to Giraffe Conservation Foundation | .  Give them a follow at least.

Lost Animals–Garry Rogers Goodreads Comment

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic RecordLost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller

Garry Rogers rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was hard to read. As you pass from one tragedy to the next, you gather sadness like a rolling ball gathers snow. More than a simple chronicle, there is deep concern here. I recommend it.

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