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I think I could turn and live with
animals,
they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look
at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their
condition,
They do not
lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me
sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied,
not one is demented with the mania
of owning things,
Not one kneels to another,
nor to his kind that lived thousands
of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole
Earth.
Walt Whitman
"Habitat destruction causes extinction, which is
forever."
Steve Harrington
"Convergent evidence indicates that non-human
animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological
substrates of conscious states along with
the capacity to exhibit
intentional behaviors.
Consequently,
the weight of evidence
indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates
that generate consciousness.
Non-human animals, all mammals and birds,
and many other creatures, including
octopus, also possess these
neurological
substrates."
The Cambridge Declaration on
Consciousness
35,000
BC
Homo sapiens caused the demise of the genus Homo
neanderthalensis.
This was probably done in three ways: by driving
small family groups off of productive land, by
genocidal extermination of
a being seen as inferior - a communal
sin and by intermarriage.
2004 ADDetailed series of population surveys that comb
virtually every square yard of England, Scotland and Wales over 40 years show a
sharp decline in populations of bird and butterflies of 54% to 71% with some
species gone altogether.
1,254 native plant species showed a decrease
of about 28% over the same period.
300 critically endangered species as
well as 237 endangered and 267 vulnerable species exist in unprotected areas
having a 50% probability of extinction
within 10 years.
"This is the tip of the iceberg. There is a window of
opportunity here. Many species across the face of Earth are hanging on to
little bits of habitat."- Ana Rodrigues
Ana Rodrigues identified sites
in the Andes, in Sierra Madre mountains in southern Mexico, on islands in
Southeast
Asia, on Madagascar and in southern
India as areas of high
biodiversity and low protection.
2007 In the
spring thousands fewer seals were killed in the Canadian seal hunt in the
southern Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Unusually warm weather led to the
drowning of thousands of baby seals as the sea ice melted before the baby seals
learned to swim.
In September three blue whales washed up on Southern
California shores after a judge decreed in August that the navy can go ahead
with a high power sonar 'test' off the coast of Southern
California.
2008 Thousands of bats are dying from
an unknown illness in the Northeast at a rate that could cause extinction.
At eight caves in New York and one in Vermont, scientists have seen bat
populations plummet over two years.
A cave that had 1,300 bats in
January 2006 recently had just 38 mostly underweight bats.
At another
cave, more than 90% of about 15,500 bats have died since 2005.
"A
quarter of all mammal species are now endangered, mostly because their habitat
is disappearing." - Olivia Judson October 14, 2008
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