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Our Biodiversity

"Reports of a sixth mass extinction on earth are misleading. Net biodiversity by species number is currently relatively static. However, the population of many species is declining so fast, due to habitat loss and climate change, that a mass extinction is foreseeable in the near future." 

Reference materials

WWF blue planet report

Marine populations reduced by between 34-90% depending upon habitat specific criteria between 1970 and 2012.

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Click the button below to access the World Wildlife Fund Living Blue Planet Report 2015 which examines the impact of human activity on our ocean biodiversity.

The sixth mass extinction?

On both land and sea, biodiversity richness has remained strong, but population decline is a critical conservation challenge.

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Click the button below to read a summary report by John C. Briggs, Professor Emeritus at South Florida University, which examines the statistical basis used to justify the notion of a sixth mass extinction.

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