An international group of researchers has issued a dire warning about the state of the world's wild animals. A new report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists one in four land mammals as endangered, as well as one in three marine mammals.
Life on Earth is disappearing fast with man inflicting most of the damage.... On land more species face oblivion because of loss of habitat, hunting and climate change while in the oceans pollution and the side effects of fishing are taking a huge toll [Telegraph].
The new assessment -- which took 1,700 experts in 130 countries a total of five years to complete -- paints "a bleak picture," leaders of the project wrote in a paper being published in the journal Science. The overview ... covers all 5,487 wild species identified since 1500. It is the most thorough tally of land and marine ...
