“10 Beautiful Animals Driven to Extinction Since the Arrival of US”
As this is the penultimate post (since my course
deadline is now looming…), I decided it would be good to reiterate one of the
recurring themes in this blog series. This theme is humans.
Though we focus on interglacial Europe, it is important to consider the ideas causing species extinction in a wider context. It has been clear through
the discussion in this blog that humans have definitely played their part in
affecting the movement and survival of species. For this
reason, today I will give a brief summary of an article from The Telegraph and why I think it’s important.
The article emerged this December and gives a
summary of 10 species supposedly driven to extinction by
human activity. Some of these became extinct quite recently
(e.g. the Western black rhinoceros), and others in the more distant
past (e.g. Woolly mammoth). The former of these was only declared
extinct in 2011, but this was solely the result of human exploitation. The
article details other species (e.g. The great auk, the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger etc), which can be found in the link below (The Telegraph, 2016).
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Dodo (left), Western black rhinoceros (right). Both extinct as a result of human activity.
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The
point I wanted to make with this article is that humans have driven, and been
solely responsible for an unknown number of extinctions throughout history. Therefore, their emergence in Europe, and its correlation with the disappearance
of so many species suggests that
human presence has been a key contributor to species disappearance well before the last few centuries.
I will
leave you to dwell on those thoughts before my last blog post next week!!
Check
out the article here:
Thanks for the read, I definitely suggest checking out the article above!
I agree that humans must have played a role, but would consider from your blogs in general, that there are other factors which could have led to extinctions and wipeouts of species. I have enjoyed your blogs and look forward to your conclusion.
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ReplyDeleteYou are a very well rounded researcher and have a flair for blog chat, I like your manner in dealing with comments. Please note that although I remain anonymous, I have been sending your blog to MSc experienced colleagues and they have come back with very positive comments. You should consider continuing this despite the fact you don't need to for your course. You would reach a wider readership, beyond 3500 + and pass the message of climate change and human behaviours into the next generation. You really do have a flair, think about it, perhaps speak with your tutors. thank you.
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