Researchers Identify Extinction Hotspots

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Researchers Identify Extinction Hotspots

 

March 07, 2006 — By Associated Press

WASHINGTON — From frigid northern Canada and Alaska to tropical Asian islands,

lands where wildlife seems safe today may pose some of the greatest extinction

dangers in the future.

 

In particular peril are animals with a relatively small geographic range and

those that have a large body mass and reproduce slowly.

 

Researchers identified regions where they felt there was a high " latent

extinction risk " for nonmarine mammals, often areas that have had little human

impact so far.

 

Latent risk is low in parts of the world already heavily populated by people,

where species likely to succumb to the pressure have already done so.

 

The findings are reported in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences.

 

" Latent risk can be thought of as a measure of the potential for a species to

decline rapidly toward extinction given exposure to levels of human impact " that

have been felt elsewhere, said the team led by Marcel Cardillo of Imperial

College in London.

 

The area with the most potentially endangered species, 284, is Sumatra and

peninsular Malaysia, the report said.

 

Next, with 224 species, is Borneo, followed by New Guinea, 205 species, western

Java, 131 species and Sulawesi, 130 species.

 

Other areas of high threat are Maluku, Indonesia, 99 species; Northern Canada

and Alaska, 96 species; Melanesian Islands, 96 species; Nusa Tenggara,

Indonesia, 86 species; East Indian highlands, 70 species;

 

Also Eastern Canadian forests, 57 species; Tasmania and Bass Strait, 49 species;

Siberian tundra, 35 species; Patagonian Coast of South America, 26 species;

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 20 species;

 

Plus the Lesser Antilles, 16 species; Indian Ocean islands, 10 species;

Greenland, 9 species; Bahamas, 8 species and Southern Polynesia, 3 species.

 

Source: Associated Press

 

 

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florida should be on that list.

there's construction here up the whatzuhi

beach front properties are being built left and right.

 

some good news, is that The Nature Conservacy is buying

up some land, to preserve what's left before it's too late

 

when I die, I want to give my money to them.

 

 

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