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| The flora and fauna dying today have had the past 65 million years to evolve into their present forms. It could take another 65 million years for comparable species to evolve once the present-day versions have been wiped out. We seem to have declared war on nature by completely disregarding wildlife and their migratory patterns, for instance, when designing roads. Roads are now a part of most animal's "natural" habitat necessitating an evolutionary adaptation. Some of the fauna pictured here failed to adapt in time and have suffered the evolutionary consequences. We are demolishing our most unique resource, planetary diversity. Loss of habitat is the primary cause and the solution is to value nature just like we do any resource and acknowledge the elemental role it plays in our lives. For more info: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive, The End of Tuna, Creatures Flee Gulf Spill, Gather Near Shore, New Mexico Students Find Novel Way to Reduce Roadkill, Insect Theft and The Butterfly Sting, Elephants Could be Extinct by 2020, Humans Push Extinctions Past Tipping Point, Study Links Atrazine to Amphibian Decline, Wildlife Becoming the Living Dead, Endangered Species on the Grill, South African Breeders Threaten Massacre After Canned Lion Hunting Ban, Animals, Plants Must Move or Die, "Herd Retirement" and Other Euphanisms for Species Genocide , The Kingpin of Wildlife Poachers, TEEB News links , 17,000+ Species Threatened by Extinction, Loss of Top Predators Causing Ecosystem Collapse, The Demise of Charismatic Mega-fauna, Farm-Raised Salmon Are Turning Our Oceans Into Dangerous and Polluted Feedlots, The Human Toll on Wildlife, Extinction Looms for Lion in Kenya, Native Texan's Respond to Climate Change, Poaching Reducing Big Five to Big One, Poaching for Profit, When People Arrive Animals Vanish, California's Toxic Fish, New Age of Extinction, U.S. Birds, One Species Versus 1.8 Million Others,
Animal Death Toll in Millions, Human-v-Natural Selection, Hunting Produces Smaller Species and Unnatural Preservation |
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Aerial and Terrestrial Environmental Photography and Art
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