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In 2015, more than 60 percent of the world's saiga antelope died in just three weeks. Now, researchers have linked the deaths to climate change.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The extinction crises is going full bore.
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Malaysian snail among hundreds of species to become extinct as a result of fishing, logging, mining, agriculture and other activities to satisfy our growing appetite for resources
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Just a stupid old snail, right? Who cares about a snail, right?
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Asian arowana change colors, kill baby ducklings and have sold for $150,000. What's crazy is that decades ago, they were eaten for food. Voigt pegs it down to several factors: overharvesting for the food trade, habitat destruction, and the fish being a slow reproducer. The same thing could be said for a lot of species. But the Asian arowana also became a hot target for fish collectors when it appeared in the UN-administered Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna in 1975. Its protected status made some people wanted to own it. “There’s a desire to own a little piece of the wild," Voigt says.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wow! What a great story! I very much want to ready this book. I'm even thinking about requiring it for my Coastal Management class next fall. This really seems to pull together a great number of issues we face when managing our coastal ecosystems.
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