From BBC News…

Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London…Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year, and one of the “great extinction episodes” in the Earth’s history is under way, it says. Pollution, farming and urban expansion, over-fishing and hunting are blamed.

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