Lions and tigers will be gone by the end of the century (Scientific American) 📂 Archived Message Posted by Der on October 27, 2021, 6:46 am The Science Of The Next 150 Years: 100 Years in the Future The first projection of species extinctions came in 1980—a prediction I made in a report for then president Jimmy Carter. It concluded that the pace at which we were losing tropical forests to logging and development would cause the extinction of 15 to 20 percent of all species by 2000. The calculation was not far off. Today's [2013] Red List of Threatened Species, from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, estimates that 13 percent of bird, 25 percent of mammal and 41 percent of amphibian species face possible extinction..." PAYWALL! Used be able to bypass that with GutHub. Not anymore. Firefox has tightened up. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extinction-countdown-end-for-many-species/ Message Thread: Lions and tigers will be gone by the end of the century (Scientific American) - Der October 27, 2021, 6:46 am « Index   Searching