Extinction Is Forever

(Photograph from MFBRP) The Pou'ouli bird (left) is extinct.

What most people don't know about extinction:

Up to 30,000 species per year are going extinct: three per hour. 50 percent of all primates and 100 percent of all great apes are threatened with extinction. Three of the world's eight tiger subspecies became extinct in the past 60 years; the remaining five are all endangered. Humans have already driven 20 percent of all birds extinct. 12 percent of mammals, 12 percent of birds, 31 percent of reptiles, 30 percent of amphibians, and 37 percent of fish are threatened with extinction.

"Polluted water can be cleaned up and trees can be replanted, but extinction is forever." -The Center For Biological Diversity.

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