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Every species on the planet documented in new report http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1254424393
Almost 10 per cent of known species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive study of the world's wildlife.
Polar bears, whose habitat is threatened by melting ice, and Tasmanian devils, which have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a cancer, are just two of the tens of thousands of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians that are in danger.
The report, The Number of Living Species in Australia and the World , published by the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), says that 9.2 per cent of known animal species are endangered by habitat loss, climate change and other pressures.
More than a fifth of of all known mammals are endangered, as are 29 per cent of amphibians and 12 per cent of birds, according to the study, the result of an international effort to catalogue every known current and extinct species of plant and animal.
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Gail says: "This is ludicrously optimistic. When ecosystems collapse, which the will (are) almost everything will face extinction!"
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It'll be nice to have that catalogue handy when we rue the loss of these species...
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