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JXStern wrote:
Not to mention frogs.
J.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:37:51 -0400, Bill
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/science/25bats.html?8dpc
³This is probably one of the strangest and most puzzling problems we
have had with bats,² said Paul Cryan, a bat ecologist with the United
States Geological Survey. ³Itıs really startling that weıve not come up
with a smoking gun yet.²
Merlin Tuttle, the president of Bat Conservation International, an
education and research group in Austin, Tex., said: ³So far as we can
tell at this point, this may be the most serious threat to North
American bats weıve experienced in recorded history. ³It definitely
warrants immediate and careful attention.²
During the last 50,000 years, including the end of the last glacial
period, approximately 33 genera of large mammals have become extinct in
North America. Of these, 15 genera extinctions can be reliably
attributed to a brief interval of 11,500 to 10,000 radiocarbon years
before present, shortly following the arrival of the Clovis people in
North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocen...#North_America
Presently, 16,306 species are threatened with extinction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...9/12/AR2007091
202322.html
Another species lost every 20 minutes.
http://www.conservation.org/act/get_...lock.aspx?KNC-
adwords&gclid=CPHE_sjZqJICFRpOagodHn6ZQA
Still wondering what the guy was thinking, as he cut down the last tree
on Easter Island.
--
Billy
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