Endangered Species increasing.

Typedef

From http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992888.

What is the cause of the mass extinctions becoming so prevalient throughout the globe? Is it a comet? The orbit of the Earth around the Sun? A new Ice Age? No, it is in fact irresponsible human activity.

Example:

The lynx's decline has been caused chiefly by agricultural and industrial development encroaching on its woodland and thicket habitat. If the decline continues, the Iberian Lynx could be the first wild cat species to go extinct for at least 2000 years

Nobody is saying people can't farm, least of all me, however, is it so much to ask to maintain some contigous habitats such that humans can protect and maintain biodiversity? Biodiversity after all is the lynchpin of ecology on this planet.

In any case what needs to happen is that every country in the world needs to designate large contigous conservation areas, such that wildlife can live, evolve and proliferate, unhindered by human activity, not simply because it is politically correct, but because protecting the environment and biodiversity is in the interests of the environment and thus in the interests of the human race.

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Sposs

Sorry to say but its never going to happen because protecting the environment and biodiversity isnt Profitable,Man's greed will eventually kill us all.

Gordon

To be a mild devil's advocate - there are new species' evolving in the world.

Jak

Hunting can be used to make biodiversity both sustainable and economically viable in certain cases.

While I agree it is tragic to lose certain species from our world, we will not always be successful - species disappeared from the face of the planet long before we made a go of survival.

JAK.

The Saint

We cant just put it down to evolution when it is our action that are causing these extinctions.

Jak

Mankinds expansion is cause for concern alright, and even with new management of our food sources and so on, our environment is a finite space and I believe there will come a point where we push other species out of existence.

In the short term, perhaps better world management could prevent this, but in the long run with our value of human life set above all else, other species will suffer for our preservation.

Solution in the long run? Kill yourself you are part of the problem?

I'm not joking - The problem is that on a local level people will do what they can to survive at the expense of everything else. And while an objective viewpoint might offer alternative solutions - these do not always seem practical at the base level some people live with.

Personally if I was stuck out in the wilderness and dying of hunger - I would not think twice about shooting the last Iberian lynx if he was all that was on the menu.

JAK.

GoneShootin

im pretty sure the last lynx would most likely eat you first

Jak

I'm pretty sure the last lynx would not be wearing a kevlar jacket as well.

MAC_E

I believe mother nature will always have the last laugh. In theory mankind will not be able to sustain his present pace of development and expansion. If we continue to work against the status quo of the worlds ecology we will basicaly dig ourselves into one large hole, unable to escape.:(