Is there a modern extinction occuring right now in the world?

Question

Is there a modern extinction occuring right now in the world?

Answer 1

yes, we are losing more smart people to idoits these days...

Answer 2

Yes, there are many endangered animals that are being pushed towards extinction.  I know that there are caring people out there that are working hard to preserve and save them, but there are still quite a number that need saving. We are losing  a chunk of rain forest each day, that is home to many species. We are losing wetlands.  Our oceans are being polluted, etc.  We are undergoing global warming.  These are all factors.  Read more in the site listed below.

Answer 3

Yes.  One of the most notable in the condor.  Another is the Florida panther.  There are many more in Africa, Asia and India.  Like the tiger and panda.

Answer 4

"an area of tropical moist forest roughly the size of Honduras is deforested or converted annually, resulting in the extinction of species at a rate that has been estimated at 17,500 species per year"

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record...

"When we hear of extinction, most of us think of the plight of the rhino, tiger, panda or blue whale. But these sad sagas are only small pieces of the extinction puzzle. The overall numbers are terrifying. Of the 40,168 species that the 10,000 scientists in the World Conservation Union have assessed, one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one in three amphibians, one in three conifers and other gymnosperms are at risk of extinction. The peril faced by other classes of organisms is less thoroughly analysed, but fully 40 per cent of the examined species of planet earth are in danger, including perhaps 51 per cent of reptiles, 52 per cent of insects, and 73 per cent of flowering plants."

http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?l...

Answer 5

Where is the evidence I don't see it.

Answer 6

Probably

Answer 7

We're actually right in the middle of the fastest mass extinction that's ever happened, including what happened to the dinosaurs, and we've lost many species already.  We MUST take FAR better care of the natural world, we're far far rougher on it they we need to be.  We need to learn how to live on this world without destroying it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_ex...

Read that and you just might end up an environmentalist.

Answer 8

Yeah. Extinction of the non-moron. I'm the last in the species and you're the natural development and advancement of the phenomenon.

Answer 9

yer in Britain. multi culture is killing the British culture.

Answer 10

of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

a lot of human activity is speeding that up since we tend to overpower all the other species in one way or another.

some reasons why animals are being wiped out ,in the forrests are:

the hunting of exotic species for the consumer market

only about 10% of the animals caught survive

the hunting of animals for food by settlers

forrest fires ,that have started because of slash and burning of forrest ,to clear the land for farming, had gotten out of control

the loss of Habitat because the conditions have changed ,e.g less humidity because of surrounding farmlands ,or overpumping of rivers for human use(farming and utility)

because of contamination of the waters ,

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's

clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years

the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.

TV put out a series of documentaries

there are campaigns in the News papers

and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day

more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees

it is an impossible situation

as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

and the Animals will continue to be trapped ,as long as people keep buying the exotic animals

CLIMATE CHANGE

And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,

vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

Recent studies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shown that bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." The studies also revealed that the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.

If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with that would ensue major economic disruption and possibly famine.

Bees are not the only polinators but if these things are happening to bees we can bet on it that other insects are also in trouble ,on top of this many people are spraying for mosquitos ,with drastic effects .

so much follows the insects in the food chains ,that we can expect a lot of very bad changes in the environment .

only time will tell what is in store for us ,and that time is running now .

everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor events any more

http://byderule.spaces.live.co... Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has

come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,

his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003