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ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE :
ANIMALS:
Horribly Bleak Study Sees 'Empty Landscape'
as Large Herbivores Vanish at Startling Rate
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Horribly Bleak Study Sees 'Empty Landscape'
as Large Herbivores Vanish at Startling Rate
By Fred Barbash and Justin Wm. Moyer
May 4, 2015 at 4:38 AM
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/04/
horribly-bleak-study-sees-empty-landscape-
as-large-herbivores-vanish-at-startling-rate/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/laby5ux
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They never ate anybody but now, some of Planet Earths innocent
vegetarians face end times. Large herbivores elephants, hippos, rhinos,
gorillas among them are vanishing from the globe at a startling rate,
with some 60 percent threatened with extinction, a team of scientists
reports.
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The situation is so dire, according to a new study, that it threatens an
empty landscape in some ecosystems across much of the planet Earth. The
authors were clear: This is a big problem and its a problem with us, not
them.
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Growing human populations, unsustainable hunting, high densities of
livestock, and habitat loss have devastating consequences for large,
long-lived, slow-breeding, and, therefore, vulnerable herbivore species,
reads Collapse of the worlds largest herbivores in Science Advances, a
publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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As if humanitys bottomless appetite for land and meat werent enough,
organized crime and the endless hunt for body parts from elephants and
rhinos is also a major factor in Africa and southern Asia, the study said.
Between 2002 and 2011 alone, the number of forest elephants in central
Africa declined by 62 percent. Some 100,000 African elephants were poached
between 2010 and 2012. And the western black rhinoceros in Africa was
declared extinct in 2011.
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This slaughter is driven by the high retail price of rhinoceros horn,
which exceeds, per unit weight, that of gold, diamonds, or cocaine,
according to the study.
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This slaughter and its consequences are not modest, the article said. In
fact, the rate of decline is such that ever-larger swaths of the world
will soon lack many of the vital ecological services these animals
provide, resulting in enormous ecological and social costs.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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