Survey Finds ‘Bleak Picture’ for World’s Mammals

Posted by John Higgins under: Time to Look Up BARCELONA — A quarter of the world’s wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here this morning. “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” —Revelation 11:18 The new assessment — which took 1,700 experts in 130 countries five years to complete — paints “a bleak picture,” leaders of the project wrote in a paper being published in the journal Science. The overview, made public at the quadrennial World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature... [read full story]