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Article: Plunder for resources destroying fabric of our planet
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- May 21, 2009
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THE PAST, it has been remarked, is a foreign country; they do
things differently there. Since the end of the last Ice Age around
12,000 years ago, humanity has expanded its numbers and power like
no other species before. Today we dominate every habitable nook and
cranny on the surface of the Earth, writes JOHN GIBBONS
Where there are winners, there are losers too. Our astonishing
evolutionary triumph has come at a fearsome price for many of the
millions of other species with whom we share this planet home.
Ahead of the UN's World Biodiversity Day tomorrow, the
International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated its "Red
List" of threatened species. It now shows 1,227 bird species as ...