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Abel to Speak
About the Health of Our Mother Earth
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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."
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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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