It is difficult to estimate the time to extinction of a species or a population. This is partly due to a time lag between degradation of a wild habitat to the point that it no longer supports a species and the actual death of the last member of that species.
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Biodiversity – Habitat Diversity and Size Matter
Marine biodiversity, and ocean coral reefs in particular, are threatened by acidification, illegal fishing, legal overfishing, agricultural runoff, the spread of algae, excessive silt flowing in the seas and oceans caused by deforestation and dynamite fishing. In fact most of marine life will …
Anthropocene Epoch: The Age of Humans
Dutch chemist, Paul Crutzen popularised the term Anthropocene, the Age of Humans, that represent this human dominated geological epoch. His argument was based on the facts, 18 years ago, that human activity had transformed between a third and a half of the land surface area of the planet.
Sixth Mass Extinction of Life on Earth Caused by Humans
Human activity and exploitation as well as climate change and ocean acidification is causing populations of vertebrate animals and their habitats to crash. The study’s research reveals that this is in fact happening at an accelerated rate. We will soon enter a time period where most of the animal populations will reach unsustainably low numbers segregated in their terminally degraded habitats scattered around the globe.
Living Planet Report 2018 – a Safe Zone for all Species
Living Planet Report: humanity’s survival depends on healthy ecosystems, yet we continue to destroy the health of nature at an alarming rate.
Life on Earth – Catastrophic Disruption of Nature
Life on Earth – A healthy natural environment and the equitable distribution of wellbeing amongst human communities, go hand in hand. You cannot have one without the other.
Insects Populations & Biodiversity Global Apocalypse
“The world’s insects populetion are crashing and on the way to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”.
The Great Acceleration and the Not-So-Living Planet
This Great Acceleration has only been possible because of Nature. Without healthy natural systems we are like a car driving at an insane speed towards a brick wall.
2018 Living Planet Report – The End of Civilisation
The recently published World Wildlife Fund 2018 Living Planet Report reveals that we have killed 60% of all wildlife in the last 40 years. I would remind readers that as recently as 200,000 years ago we would have considered our ancestors wildlife by any of today’s definitions.
Mammals on Death Row – Extinction is Forever
The period of time since the last mass extinction 66 million years ago, that killed the dinosaurs, is known as the Age of Mammals. Our own species is a child of this age. The study shows that it would take three to five million years for nature to recover the anticipated mammal species losses of the next 50 years.