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Article: Biodiversity and the Law.
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- Environmental Law
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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The earths biodiversity is rapidly disappearing. This environmental crisis is the subject of Biodiversity and the Law, a collection of writings edited by William J. Snape III. In this book review, Richard Blaustein addresses some of the issues raised by the books nineteen authors. He argues that the law, if properly applied, could potentially stop the biodiversity "extinction" and protect the earth's biodiversity for future generations.
In his widely read book, The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson, the acclaimed Harvard Professor and dean of the biological field of biodiversity, writes, "The sixth great extinction spasm of geological time is upon us, grace ...