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Tag Archives: extinction

A bird which is becoming extinct because it is losing its culture

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on March 17, 2021 by MikeBMarch 17, 2021
Regent honeyeater

The regent honeyeater is a very attractive Australian songbird. For thousands of years and for generation after generation they have sung beautifully to attract females. The males learn their song from older, adult males. Because there are so few honeyeaters … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds | Tagged Australia, birds, conservation, culture, extinction

Humans ate all the great auk eggs

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on January 1, 2021 by MikeBJanuary 1, 2021
Last great auk

The great auk was persecuted to extinction by humankind many years ago. Excessive hunting was the main cause and it is said that the last great auk living on the British Isles was stoned to death. The bird became extinct … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds | Tagged birds, conservation, extinction, history, marine wildlife

UK: keeping monkeys as pets is to be banned

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on December 11, 2020 by MikeBDecember 17, 2020
Rhianna with her 'baby' monkey pet

Keeping monkeys as pets causes suffering for the animals and it endangers their survival in the wild. The UK government is preparing to announce that anybody who buys, sells and breeds pet monkeys will face a significant fine. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Monkeys | Tagged animal abuse, conservation, extinction, human animal relationship, human behavior, monkeys, primate, Primates

Wild species need to travel north by 3 miles per year because of climate change

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on October 29, 2020 by MikeBOctober 29, 2020
Global warming

The charity Rewilding Britain has advised that the UK habitats of many wild species need to be joined up to allow them to travel north by up to 3 miles per year because of global warming. Travelling north allows them … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservation | Tagged conservation, environment, extinction, global warming, habitat

$500 billion a year to protect wildlife

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on September 30, 2020 by MikeBOctober 1, 2020
COP26

NEWS AND VIEWS: Sir David Attenborough is supporting a campaign by more than 100 conservation groups to get countries to commit, in total, £390 billion ($500 billion) annually to protect wildlife. Today there is a virtual UN biodiversity summit meeting. … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged climate change, conservation, extinction, news

Controversy over plug-in hybrid car emissions

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on September 16, 2020 by MikeBSeptember 16, 2020
Climate change protest

Plug-in hybrid cars are meant to have a much reduced level of carbon dioxide emissions compared to petrol or diesel cars. It is said they that produce about one third less CO2. They also produce less nitrous oxide and particulates … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change | Tagged carbon dioxide, cars, climate change, environment, extinction, news

UN targets to protect wildlife remain unmet

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on September 16, 2020 by MikeBSeptember 16, 2020
Deforestation - habitat loss

The list of 20 UN targets set 10 years ago to protect wildlife are largely unmet. The targets included reducing habitat loss, preventing harmful pollution, preventing wildlife extinctions, protecting land and sea and managing sustainable fish stocks. The UN has … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservation | Tagged conservation, extinction

Woolly rhino died out because it was too hot and wet

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on August 14, 2020 by MikeBAugust 14, 2020
Woolly rhino

There was a big questionmark hanging over the extinction of the woolly rhino which it is believed died out about 14,000 years ago. That time was about 15,000 years after humans first saw them. Researchers, using mitochondrial DNA sequencing thanks … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged conservation, extinction, history, rhino, science, study

Thirty percent of the world’s surface should be protected

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on July 9, 2020 by MikeBJuly 10, 2020
Protect planet Earth

A global study by the National Geographic Society and Wyss Foundation concluded that the world should meet a UN proposal to double the area of protected land and quadruple the area of protected sea. The goal would be to protect … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservation | Tagged conservation, extinction | Leave a reply

Planet Earth is being misused and mismanaged leading to the sixth mass extinction

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on June 2, 2020 by MikeBJune 3, 2020
Amazon forest destroyed

The media, today, is expressing an exasperation at the inability of humans to change the course that they are on which is a long-term acute mismanagement and misuse of the planet leading to what is described as the sixth mass … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged conservation, extinction | Leave a reply

Two books that will save animal and human lives

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on June 17, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Chris Packham

Here are 2 books recommended by Chris Packham which he says will save lives. If he says so I believe him. He means the lives of animals as well as human lives.

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Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

Mexico is a paradigm of the world’s ‘human population growth problem’

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on May 28, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Mexico deforestation

Mexico is endangering the survival of the most species (compared to other countries) because of their uncontrolled human population growth. We have a list of the top ten countries containing the most endangered species. For me, it means that these … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

The most shocking image you’ll see about the human destruction of our planet

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on May 27, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
The most shocking image you'll ever see if you are an environmentalist

No words are needed. What have we done? What are we doing? When will we stop? Why are we destroying the planet we depend on for our lives? Despair, really. Just despair. We must hate ourselves.

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Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

Children lack experience but they have clear sight on global warming

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 27, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

I’m referring to the schoolchildren’s strike to force the adults of this world, by which I mean the politicians and senior businessmen, to do something tangible and quickly about climate change. I’m sure a lot of people will dismiss what … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

Hybrid aliens are on earth to colonise it and to solve global warming

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 27, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

A lecturer of Korean at Oxford, Dr. Young-hae Chi, believes that aliens are on the planet already and they are breeding with humans to create a hybrid species. He believes that they will save the planet because they are of … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

The skinny whales of the Salish Sea

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 19, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Orca photo by Jeanne Hyde

The killer whales of the Salish Sea, which lies between mainland Washington state and Vancouver Island, are sometimes skinny. They are undernourished, underfed and starving. They have “peanut heads” and they suffer an increased chance of dying. And they are … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

Humans are eating big mammals to extinction

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on February 7, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Giant salamander

It is an extraordinary thought; humans are literally eating large mammals to extinction. What I mean is that we are using these mammals as sources of food and were doing it to such an extent that 60% of large mammals … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction | Tagged extinction

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