OT: was Shrieking Frogs Unnerve Hawaiian Island now endangered species

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Hi Butch,

Apparently Australia is amongst the worst in the world :-( . Found this

on a website discussing endangered species in Australia

http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/525e198ee27f1682ca2569de00267e45?OpenD\

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Since European settlement began, just over 200 years ago, 18 species of

mammals and about 100 species of vascular plants have become extinct.

Currently about 40 species of mammals and many hundreds of species of

plants are threatened with extinction. These figures are the worst in

the world.

 

I, like you, hope the action being taken will reverse this trend. We

never seem to learn do we.

 

Virginia

 

 

 

Butch Owen wrote:

 

>Presently there are at least two species of native mammals, 30 birds, 5

>reptiles and amphibians and 279 taxi of plants on the endangered list in

>Hawaii. More than a third of the species on the U.S. endangered

>species list come from Hawaii. Hawaii is often called the endangered

>species capital of the world as 316 endangered species can be found in

>various ecosystems there.

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>I hope they can get their act together before its too late.

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