AR-News: ( Ca) Many species facing doom

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Scientists blame man's activities

By TAMMY MARLOWE, STAFF REPORTER


 

Scientists in Winnipeg and around the world are warning continued 
over-consumption of the Earth's resources by humans could doom hundreds of land plants 
and animals to extinction in less than 50 years. "It is staggering," said 
Assiniboine Park Zoo curator Bob Wrigley. "Species that took millions and millions 
of years to evolve -- we've wiped them off the face of the Earth in one or two 
generations of ignorance. 
"There's the phenomenal feeling of loss that any biologist feels -- or anyone 
who loves nature feels -- when we are educated enough to know that we are 
squandering all this." 


full story:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/01/26/325291.html




"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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