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Article: Evidence of global extinction crisis builds.
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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* Evidence of global extinction crisis builds: On September 28, 2000, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) released an update of its Red List of Threatened Species, further documenting the acceleration of biodiversity loss. The 2000 survey found that close to one in four of the world's mammal species and one in eight of the world's bird species are threatened with extinction. There have been at least 103 documented cases of bird species going extinct in the last two centuries. These are a fraction of the numbers of all species that many scientists estimate have actually disappeared--at rates from 100 to 1,000 times the "natural" extinction rate.
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