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by Earthquake » 29/10/16, 19:46

What to be a little gloomy:

http://www.wwf.fr/vous_informer/rapport_planete_vivante_2016/

Alarming at its rate, the decline of the world's biodiversity threatens the survival of other species and of our own future. The latest edition of the Living Planet Report recalls both the gravity of the situation and the solutions at hand to begin to remedy it. The Living Planet Index reveals that the world's populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell by 58% between 1970 and 2012. However, unless we start reforming our systems now food and energy and to fulfill the global commitments made to fight climate change, protect biodiversity and support sustainable development, this percentage will have crossed the threshold of two thirds in the space of half a century 1970-2020 .
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by moinsdewatt » 30/10/16, 12:43

More than half of the living on Earth has disappeared in the past 40 years
WWF's "Living Planet" report warns of the rapid disappearance of animal populations on Earth ...


October 27 2016

The fact is frightening: according to the WWF “Living Planet” report published on Thursday, more than half of the populations of vertebrates (mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles) in the world have disappeared in the past 40 years. Between 1970 and 2012, their workforce decreased by 58%, figures the NGO, a decline of 2% on average per year. At this rate, in 2020 animal populations will have decreased by 67% compared to 1970. "It would then be two thirds of the living that will have disappeared, this materializes the 6th extinction of species", warns Pascal Canfin, director general of WWF France .
Dried out wetlands

The most affected species are those that live in freshwater, lakes, rivers and streams. They have lost 81% of their workforce since 1970 and may soon disappear due to the degradation of their natural environments. "It is mainly the wetlands, marshes, swamps or wet meadows that are disappearing," explains Arnaud Gauffier, agriculture and food manager at WWF France. These fairly unproductive areas from an agricultural point of view, often still associated with diseases such as malaria, are very often artificialized in developed countries or drained and deforested to plant agricultural crops in developing countries. Example of news: in Notre-Dame-des-Landes or Sivens, these are wetlands that are threatened with disappearing to make way for concrete, warns the WWF.

Poaching and overfishing

Terrestrial animals are not doing much better: they have seen their numbers decrease by 38% since 1970, mainly due to the loss of habitats and the over-exploitation of certain species. African elephants have seen their housing areas decrease under urban pressure and are victims of poaching, which kills around 30.000 elephants each year. But the threat also hangs over the rhinos, tigers, polar bears, pangolins which are the poached animals in the world. "The koala is threatened by the disappearance of the species of eucalyptus on which it feeds," adds Arnaud Gauffier. The destruction of the natural environments in which animals live is due either directly to humans or indirectly to climate change which is starting to have devastating effects on all species and not only those of the poles, which were the first to be affected. "

Obliged to migrate quickly to find a climate that suits them, the animals must move 100 km per year on average, notes the WWF. "At this speed, and with all the barriers we have put in breaking the connections between natural environments by cities or roads, we endanger the ability of species to adapt," warns Arnaud Gauffier.
Finally, marine species are not immune to human predation. 36% of the populations living in the seas and oceans have disappeared in the last 40 years, mainly due to the overexploitation of fish stocks. "It would suffice that everyone be careful to buy only fish caught sustainably for the situation to improve," notes Pascal Canfin.

Urgency to act

For the director of WWF France, this alarming situation is not irreversible. “We have to work on mental patterns and on our representation of the world: the human species feels apart from other species but the reality is that we are part of this global ecosystem. If this base disappears, it will impact us, ”warns Pascal Canfin. What will happen to man if he spends all the natural capital on the planet, like we would empty a bank account without worrying about what will feed us afterwards? No one knows, since during the last great extinction, 66 million years ago, the condemned dinosaurs did not mix with any human being.

Good news, however: the WWF report points out that the ecological footprint of OECD countries fell by 5% between 1985 and 2012 due to the economic crisis, which forced them to consume less, but also thanks to structural improvements : energy efficiency, development of renewable energies, sorting of waste, reduction of meat consumption… "This proves that if millions of people add up their little gestures, we together have an immense transformation capacity, comments Pascal Canfin. Food is really the gateway to action: thinking about what we consume, what it has involved in terms of deforestation or the disappearance of fish species, is a powerful lever. "

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by moinsdewatt » 30/12/16, 17:37

Cheetah runs right to extinction: 7100 remain in the wild

By LEXPRESS.fr, published the 27 / 12 / 2016

According to a report published Monday, the cheetah is on the verge of extinction if we do not do more to protect it, because it is hunted from its natural habitat and lives mainly off reserves.

The cheetah is dying. According to a study by the Zoological Society of London published Monday, the species is seriously threatened. Only 7100 individuals remain free worldwide. Their populations are distributed between Africa, mainly, and Iran where there remain about fifty specimens.

Cheetah lost 91% of its natural habitat

This big cat has been driven from 91% of its habitat by human activities, according to this study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to seeing its living space shrink like sorrow, the predator is threatened by hunting, the scarcity of antelopes and other animals constituting its pantry, poaching, the trade of baby cheetahs (prized in the countries of Gulf, where they trade $ 10 on the black market) and auto traffic. The cheetah is killed for its skins, or because it threatens the farms.

The cheetah lives in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, but it has almost disappeared from Asia. According to the study, in which the NGO Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society collaborated, 77% of the cheetah abitat is found outside nature reserves, which makes it difficult to save the species. In Zimbabwe, for example, the number of individuals has dropped from 1200 to 170 in 16 years.

"Adopt a new approach to animal conservation"

Sarah Durant, of the Zoological Society of London, which oversaw the report, says the "secret nature of this elusive feline makes it difficult to gather information on the species, leading to its fate being overlooked." "Our findings show that the size of the territory necessary for the cheetah's survival, coupled with the wide range of threats to the species in the wild, make it certainly much more threatened with extinction than the species. 'we thought ", she adds, quoted by the BBC.

Sarh Durant recommends adopting a new approach to animal conservation, going beyond the establishment of protected areas and putting in place financial incentives for human communities in areas where animals live, including outside reserves. Otherwise, "the disappearance of cheetahs is inevitable," says Kim Young-Overton of the Panthera organization.

A first step is, for the authors of the report, to include the cheetah, the fastest animal in the world, in the "endangered" category on the red list of threatened species of the IUCN (the International Union for nature conservation). She currently belongs to the "vulnerable" category.

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by sen-no-sen » 30/12/16, 20:59

A terrible reminder that you give us here moinsdewatt!
If still much doubt about global warming, the world ecocide, on the other hand, is indeed a most factual catastrophe ...
The collapse of biodiversity confirms the process of "great replacement", biological life is disappearing in favor of an ever more invasive technological world.
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by Janic » 01/01/17, 10:24

A very terrible reminder that you make us there lessdewatt!
it does not matter! They will be replaced by billions of cows, calves, pigs and broods which can be poached to be largely minted too ... by populations voluntarily kept in misery, to satisfy the wealthy of all races and colors thirsty for the blood of other. Gnarf, gnarf !!!! : Evil:
See all these breeders who cry miseries because a wolf, a bear, slaughtered BEFORE THEM their herd of slave animals and who will claim that these killers (wolves, not them obviously) be slaughtered mercilessly (must say that the pity is not their strong)
A biblical precept says and recognizes that " a man's heart is bad from his mother's womb"
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by Ahmed » 01/01/17, 10:49

The Bible says a lot, but the reality on this issue is not exactly that consideration (which should not be taken literally). French breeders, confronted with the (relatively) new presence of the wolf and the few solutions which are proposed to them react to the event, because their position as efficient agents of the system becomes more and more delicate. Caught between two evils, a growing overhang vis-à-vis the economic system and the wolf, it is easier to choose the target (in all senses of the word!) The latter, since easily identifiable than s '' take on abstract and non-localizable structures (and, moreover, forming an integral part of their psychic representation).
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by Janic » 02/01/17, 10:34

Ahmed hello
Either I expressed myself badly or you did not understand the meaning of my speech.
See all these breeders who cry miseries because a wolf, a bear, slaughtered BEFORE THEM their herd of slave animals

Clearly assassins (since there is a plan to kill others) who cry (in a non figurative way) because other murderers (them for the sake of survival) slaughtered their slaves BEFORE THEM. So they are bad from their mother's womb by atavism, heredity, culture, habits or others AND THEREFORE AT THE FOOT OF THE LETTER. What hardly distinguishes us from them, moreover: We are all murderers!
But they don't even realize it anymore since their work makes them blind (well almost!) As efficient agents as you say.
But it is not death that sorrows them, but that this death does not benefit them as for any slave slave moreover (the slave traders are not so far in history, nor the colonists)
A very terrible reminder that you make us there lessdewatt!
it is therefore another reminder that sentimentalism manifests itself, in this case, on animals far from the eyes and the belly and that it disappears in front of a bloody plate.
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by Christophe » 12/07/17, 12:31

This is confirmed ...

EXTINCTION OF MASS: ANIMALS DISAPPEAR AT HIGH SPEED V

A trio of scientists sound the alarm. Man is sawing the tree of life faster than we thought. Across the earth, vertebrate animals are declining in number and losing ground, including species thought to be non-threatened.


The sixth mass extinction is not running: it is running! "It is much more worrying than expected," write the three authors of a study on the demography of half of the terrestrial vertebrate species (27 amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) distributed worldwide between 600 and 1900.

Until then, scientists had only measured the annual number of extinctions: at least two hundred vertebrate species have been wiped off the map in a century. A figure that was already cold in the back. But this new research shows that it doesn't stop there: the decline is even more generalized. It is also the number of populations by species and the size of these populations that fall in concert.

An emblematic example: the hecatomb of the African lion

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A third of the species studied, almost 9000, are decreasing in number and losing ground everywhere on Earth. Yet among these routed species, 30% are still considered "common" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the organization in charge of identifying endangered species and which also provided the data for this study.

Overall, if the tropical regions are the most affected in absolute terms (because they are also the regions where biodiversity is the highest), the loss of relative diversity is greater in the extreme regions (the two poles and the desert areas) .

Suffering mammals

The decline is massive, affects all regions of the world and spares almost no species of vertebrate. But according to the continents and according to the classes of animals, the results are mixed. Temperate zones (such as France), for example, are experiencing the most marked decline in bird species and populations. As for mammals, the decline mainly affects Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Out of 177 mammal species for which scientists had the most complete data, on the whole planet, they observed a reduction of more than 40% in their geographical distribution - and up to 80% for half of them.

For researchers, this dramatic loss threatens our future: "The resulting biological annihilation will obviously have serious ecological, economic and social consequences", They conclude.


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by Christophe » 12/07/17, 12:36

And conversely, I think insects are gaining (and will gain even more) ground ... and some are not at all pleasant for humans ...

How many insects per day does a swift eat? When you know the reproductive cycles of insects ...
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