Wildlife populations down by half over 40 years

[shenmue]

http://m.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29418983

Current estimates are much worse than previously thought. Good Lord.

[ladjf]

1. Great job humans! nt

[CountAllVotes]

2. 100,000 tigers a century ago; 3,000 left today

[SoCalDem]

3. Wild animals need habitat.. It's where they LIVE

and when streams they count on dry up, they have no recourse but to try to cross dangerous (to them and drivers) roads or show up in neighborhoods that infringed on their traditional habitat..

When humans first go into a "new-to-them" habitat they pretty much immediately set out to exterminate the "pesky" wildlife they bump into..raccoons, squirrels, bats, opossums, skunks, mice, etc... these animals are the lower end of the food chain for the larger predators, so naturally when their food sources vanish, they come after family pets..

[pscot]

4. Too many of us

We're taking up too much space. There's no room left for any body else.

[truedelphi]

5. I see it first hand ever single month.

Vineyards go in; they are nothing but metal fencing and posts, with the scant foliage of new plants.

Huge tall fences to block off the deer and rabbits. The latest new vineyard to go in actually blocks the deer from the higher hills from ever getting down to the lake. I cannot imagine the agony of a doe with her fawns trying to get water so she can continue nursing her brood, it is late summer, with the temp around 99 degress, and no water!

Nothing but pesticided barren land around the vines. You can sit there all day and not see so much as a butterfly land. And this is on a plot that is five hundred by one thousand acres.

All the lovely Northern California rain forest being turned into vineyards, casinos and parking lots.

Good luck Wild Life; Good luck!

[GliderGuider]

6. Over my lifetime wildlife is down 70%, while humans and domesticated animals have tripled.

What we are doing to life on this planet is utterly horrifying.