Facing A Mass Extinction
What one biologist says you need to know about the mass extinction event that's underway
Rebecca Williams, July 13, 2017 (Michigan Public Radio)
“Biologists say the sixth mass extinction episode on Earth is already happening…[But there is more to the story. Two] vertebrate species go extinct every year on average…[T]hey tend to be obscure creatures…[Paul Ehrlich, author of a new study, said] the loss of individuals and populations is horrendous, and…[humans are dependent on those plants and animal] populations…[E]stimates show that half the wildlife on the planet, though not half of the earth’s species, has been lost] in the last 40 or 50 years…” click here for more
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