- the worst species loss since the time of the dinosaurs

. . . and we’re clearly to blame.
So says a new report by the WWF, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint Network. The finds, the Independent reports today, that land species have declined by 25 per cent, marine life by 28 per cent, and freshwater species by 29 per cent.
“You’d [...]

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- bad news for bats, mammals, frogs . . .

“Australia already has the worst record in the world for conserving its beautiful and unusual wildlife,” says the UK’s Independent in what’s already become a gloomy week for the world’s fauna and flora — and it’s still only Tuesday here in California.
Some 40% of all the mammal species that have become extinct over the past [...]

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mapping our impact on the oceans

The UC Santa Barbara-based National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis has published in today’s Science a “Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosytems.”  You can see the map here.
“We still understand very little of the ocean’s biodiversity and how it is changing under our influence,” says the report, which represents an effort to [...]

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