Fun Endangered Species Facts

[blindpig]

At least 15,580 species of plant and animal are endangered worldwide.

One out of three amphibians are threatened.

One half of freshwater turtles are threatened.

One out of four species of mammals is threatened.

One out of eight species of birds is endangered.

The Conference of the Parties to the Convention Biological Diversity is having it's 8th meeting in Curitiba, Brazil.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2006/2006-03-27-03.asp

The talk is all good, I hope it amounts to more than that. :scared:

[BlueEyedSon]

1. and one species becomes extinct every 2-3 minutes

[Gildor Inglorion]

2. There are times when I'm glad I'm old...

I don't really want to live in the world of 50 to 100 years from now with no rainforests, no coral reefs, and probably, thanks to the Japanese and Norweigans, no whales, either. How depressing.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Well, look on the bright side

At the rate we're going, there won't be any Japanese or Norwegians, either.

[XemaSab]

6. Cheers dude!

:toast:

[blindpig]

4. one little kick for the critters

[phantom power]

5. I bet those figure don't even count collapse of food-chains...

from climate change.