Indigenous people are communities that have lived in a region for many hundreds or thousands of years prior to colonisation. Typically they have strong links to the surrounding natural habitats, wildlife and ecosystems. They would also have distinct languages, cultures, beliefs and knowledge systems and be resolved to protect their identity and their social, economic […]
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Sumatran Elephant – Endangered – 1,500 left
The Sumatran Elephant is one of the four existing Asian elephant sub-species and is found only on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The other three sub-species are the Sri Lankan Elephant (Sri Lanka), the Indian Elephant (India to Malaysia) and the Borneo Elephant (Indonesia).
Species: How Do They Become Extinct
A species becomes extinct when all the individuals in every existing population on Earth die. When this happens that species is gone forever. We have already exterminated or severely degraded substantially more than half of the populations of all species and their wild habitats. It starts with the arrival of people on the scene.
Wild habitat – people who destroy it are amoral, not evil
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.
Tigers are Endangered and in Crisis – The Fading Roar
Tiger populations down from one hundred thousand to under four thousand in the last one hundred years.
Earth – Time for Humanity to Know its Place
Humanity’s, relationship with Earth is dysfunctional as confused as we are about the reason and the purpose of our presence on this Planet.