Biodiversity: we can map the biggest threats to endangered species in your local area
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Biodiversity: we can map the biggest threats to endangered species in your local area
Louise Mair, Newcastle University and Philip McGowan, Newcastle University
Since 1993, 15 species of bird and mammal are thought to have gone extinct, including China’s Yangtze river dolphin and the Pernambuco pygmy owl from Brazil. But these recent examples are a tiny fraction of what scientists estimate could disappear in the lifetimes of people living today. One million species spanning the full diversit...
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