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6,000,000,000 Consumption Machines - environmental aspects of population growth

International Wildlife, Sept-Oct, 1999

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In other areas, the introduction of nonnative, or exotic, species contributes to extinction woes. Hawaii's native fauna and flora have been decimated by species brought in, deliberately or by accident, by people. On the U.S. mainland, exotics have been implicated in close to 70 percent of all fish extinctions this century. In Europe, much of the Black Sea's fauna has been eliminated by a combination of overfishing, pollution and exotics. Its commercially valuable fish species have declined from 26 to 5 in a decade.

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On top of all that, an ominous new term has been added recently to the biologists' lexicon of threats to animals: "defaunation," also referred to as "the empty forest." From Laos to Congo, Brazil to Madagascar, impoverished people desperate to put food in the pot are killing whatever moves. Now, vast areas of tropical forest have been scoured nearly clean by hunters of bushmeat. For the first time, there are large areas of available habitat with few birds or mammals to live in them.

Saving Europe's Wolf

Thanks to the tireless work of countless wildlife groups, the gray wolf has expanded its range in Europe. In a stunning comeback, it is recolonizing Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland. In Slovakia, the WOLF Forest Protection Movement aims to have 52 WOLF groups, at least one in each of 42 major watersheds threatened by large-scale logging.

6,000,000,000 Consumption Machines - environmental aspects of population growth

International Wildlife, Sept-Oct, 1999

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