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If you imagine the news of extinctions is in any way inflated, this shows you wrong. Whole groups of related species, at the genera level of classification are becoming extinct. This means that no surviving relative species are poised to fill ecological niches left vacant, a situation that may take tens of thousands of years to recover.
Human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire genera | Stanford News
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A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level, from researchers at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, finds a “mutilation of the tree of life” with massive potential harms to human society.
At a sobering glance, this year's State of Nature Infographic.
stateofnature.org.uk
Sadly another dip into bad news from the annual State of Nature report. We need to steel ourselves to continue fighting for the Habitat of the New Forest.
One in six species at risk of going extinct in Great Britain
www.nhm.ac.uk
Wildlife in the UK has declined on average by 19% since monitoring began in 1970.
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