I’m reblogging this post from one of my favorite blogs, Champagnewhisky, because saving wildlife for our children and grandchildren is a subject close to my heart. I also thought the pictures were wonderful!
It’s generally acknowledged that we are now officially in the midst of a major phase of extinction when it comes to plant and animal life on our home planet. Whether it’s called the Sixth, the Holocene or the Anthropocene Extinction, this wave of die-offs is the biggest in almost 70 million years, when three-quarters of all plant, animal and sea life perished in the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction.
Pangolin and Pangolin Man. Images of the pangolin keepers who rescue and rehabilitate pangolins, the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world, hunted for its meat and scales.
Image: Adrian Steirn via Africa Geographic
There are a couple of key differences between these two major extinction events.
For one thing, the earlier extinction is widely considered to be the result of a massive asteroid impact that had a series of long-lasting effects – but there is some disagreement on that origination story…
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The Pangolin is an amazing, ancient animal. Nice to see that there are some trying to save them from extinction. That’s a worthy cause indeed.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Wonderful lost! Thank you for sharing!
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Glad you enjoyed it. I thought it was interesting, and scary…
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Yes.
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Thank you for the link. I work for many of the main animal welfare orgs but had not come against this . . .methinks the knowledge gained will be much appreciated . . . . . am so looking forwards to posts to come . . .
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I am so thankful that there is some positive changes in the world. I am a big supporter of our local animal rescue charities.
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World needs more people like this. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you, Muthuvel.
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The pictures are amazing. I never even knew that this animal existed, never mind that it is threatened by extinction. Now that IS scary…
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I watched a program on the controversy of naming the current era Anthropocene, for its human impact – a profoundly negative one. And yet, there is hope. And that too is because of human intervention.
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