Human impacts, Conservation presentation.

1. The Biodiversity Crisis
• Current extinction rates are 50-500 times historical levels
& increasing
• Estimated 3,000 – 30,000 species go extinct every year
• Over 50% of animal species are listed as critically
endangered, endangered, or vulnerable to extinction
• At current extinction rates, over half the plant & animal
species will be extinct by the end of the 21st
century

2. Major Causes of the Biodiversity Crisis
1. Habitat destruction
2. Introduced species
3. Overexploitation

3. The Hundred Heartbeat Club
Yangtze river dolphin Phillipine eagle
Kakapo
Javan rhinoceros

4. Who Cares?
• Biophilia - biodiversity is critical to...
our survival & our sanity
• Ethical obligation

5. Thank You!

6. Thank You!