Saturday, March 18, 2006
Filthy Humans!
Humans are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a U.N. report said on Monday.
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"In effect, we are currently responsible for the sixth major extinction event in the history of earth, and the greatest since the dinosaurs disappeared, 65 million years ago," said the 92-page Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 report. - Reuters
Now there's a report card you want tacked up on your refrigerator.
And, in what one can only hope is a coincidence...
A pair of baby marmoset monkeys the size of a human thumb were amongst a haul of rare animals and birds stolen in a burglary of a zoo.
The tiny primates were amongst an entire colony of the threatened black-eared marmosets that was stolen along with a number of exotic birds from Exmoor Zoo in Bratton Fleming, Barnstaple, Devon. - Daily Mail
Go Humans! Ra! Ra! Ra!
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