Conservationists fear many animal and plant species will vanish forever thanks to our impact on the planet. The big question is what we can do to prevent it.
A new survey shows lemurs are far more threatened than previously thought.
In around 300 years time, 75% of all mammal species will have disappeared from this planet. That's the startling prediction from Anthony Barnosky, a palaeobiologist at the University of California, Berkeley – that’s if the current rates of extinction continue and the animals already threatened or endangered are wiped out this century.
See full Article: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121101-a-looming-mass-extinction
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