Humans' Role in Extinction
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- Humans have existed for 200,000 years on Earth.
- Early man helped hunt the biggest animals – woolly mammoths, giant kangaroos and giant sloths – to extinction.
- The passenger pigeon, the Tasmanian tiger and, most recently, the baiji, a freshwater dolphin in China are all gone forever.
- According to the study in Science, their numbers fell by half over the past 35 years.
- That makes this the fastest extinction event on record, even if it is not yet a mass die-off.
- The biggest animals still left on the planet – elephants, tigers, whales, among others – are most at risk.
- And we humans have shown no desire to stop the activities that drive extinction.
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