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-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Extinction is a natural byproduct of life and evolution, but an alarming number of species have entered the dustbin of history thanks to human activity — which is anything but natural. In a 2023 study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , scientists learned humans caused so many extinctions over the last 500 years that if our species had never existed, it would have taken 18,000 years for that same number of genera to have naturally vanished. This finding reinforced a conclusion by a 2021 study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, which reported that the average predicated rate for freshwater animals and plants today is three orders of magnitude higher than it was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid is believed to have killed the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

"The solution will vary by country and even within countries." Clearly we need to reverse this trend, but where do we even start? A new study in the journal Frontiers in Science gives a set of suggestions and reports that humanity could begin conserving many of the vanishing species at minimal cost and with using only roughly 164 megahectares (equal to 10,000 hectares or 38.6 square miles).



Related The Endangered Species Act is 50 years old — and without it humanity may go extinct, scholar says To learn this, the researchers used six layers of global biodiversity data to create an internationa.

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