to voice opinions, share images, get paid to report news and more! Project reveals of 17,000 assessed species, over 7000 could become threatened with extinction because of climate change. One of my favourite sayings come from a great song by a renown artist Joni Mitchell who wrote You don’t know what you got until it is gone.” (Big Yellow Taxi) I recall this lyric whenever the discussion turns to endangered species of any kind. A quarter of all existing mammals are threatened with extinction. The polar bear and the threats to existence have been much discussed. What comes to mind when thinking about endangered species is this when it comes to climate change all animals are under a threat so why focus only on some and ignore the others? The World Conservation Union (IUCN) decided to take on the task and found of 17,000...
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