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ALARMING REPORT


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alarming report
In 2002 the United Nations released a disturbing report, Global Environmental Outlook-3, which systematically verified the severity of the extinction crisis…

  • The report found that 12% of birds and fully 1/4 of mammals would disappear from earth within 30 years if this alarming trend was not reversed.


  • Worldwide, species are vanishing because the places where they live, breed, forage and raise their young are disappearing. It is the loss and degradation of earth’s wetlands, forests, meadows, oceans, rivers and streams that is the overwhelming threat to wildlife.


  • Globally, habitat loss is responsible for the plight of 89% of endangered birds, 83% of endangered mammals and 91% of threatened plants.


  • In just 30 years over 1/3 of the natural world has been destroyed, and if current consumption patterns continue in less than 5 decades we will need the equivalent of two earths to support humanity.
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