Madagascan bird declared extinct

[whopis01]

Source: CNN

The Alaotra Grebe, a small diving bird native to Madagascar has been officially classified extinct, according to a leading bird conservation organization.

"No hope now remains for this species. It is another example of how human actions can have unforeseen consequences," Dr Leon Bennun, BirdLife International's director of science, policy and information said in a statement.

Martin Fowlie, communications officer at BirdLife International told CNN: "The overall state of the world's birds is getting worse year on year. But these are two very good examples in the list this year that show conservation works.

"We have the skill and the expertise, so these things can be prevented. But we need commitments from governments to provide money to help birds and animals to survive."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/26/bird.extinction.red.list/index.html?hpt=T2

[Teka]

1. Very sad

Third species of Grebe to go extinct in the last 35 years.

[Beacool]

3. It's heartbreaking..........

:-(

[n2doc]

2. "It is another example of how human actions can have unforeseen consequences,"

Oh, we can foresee them, all-right. We just don't give a damn.

[Plucketeer]

6. I agree 100%!!!

All of us shaking our heads in collective dismay and not taking any real actions to prevent such. Apathy <- not in danger of extinction.

[Fearless]

8. +1

[FedUpWithIt All]

4. ...

:(

[thereismore]

5. Stupid bird. Won't happen to us.

:sarcasm:

[alfredo]

7. Our turn will come someday if we don't grow up. Of course

we might be just another evolutionary dead end like the trilobite.

[Nihil]

13. Oh to be as successful a "dead end" as that ...

We've managed ~200,000 years so far and the last 200 or so have
shown uncontrolled & damaging (cancerous) rates of growth, far
in excess of stability.

The trilobites' ~275 million years is pretty damn successful in comparison.

:shrug:

(Don't mind me - I just think trilobites are beautiful! :hi:)

[alfredo]

15. I do too. The limestone here is around 400 million years

old, so we have trilobites (Flexicalymene and Isotelus fragments) everywhere. We have a huge exposed Devonian bed at the falls of the Ohio across from Louisville. They won't let you take specimens there.




Falls of the Ohio. Used to do a lot of fishing there. Lot of channel cats there.


The Camp Nelson Fault, south of Lexington is a great place to find fossils. Look at the clay banks below the I 75 bridge over the Kentucky River, south of the river. A fault line is exposed. The clay banks are good because the rain exposes more fossils over time.

[Journeyman]

9. On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. . . .

The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin -- who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.


Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

[ladjf]

10. The human race is too dumb and greedy to survive much longer. nt

[Xenotime]

11. I like to move it, move it.......off the planet.

Sorry, I see Madagascar anything and that tune jumps into my head.. Nevertheless, very sad.

[Strelnikov_]

12. Goodbye Little Grebe

We who cannot live in balance with nature because of our need to "have it all" salute your sacrifice.

In your honor I will supersize my order of cheese fries when I drive my Suburban 1 mile to the fried food shack for my pre-shopping snack before going to the Consumputopia Mall later this afternoon.

[Odin2005]

14. Oh no!

:(

[AlphaCentauri]

16. Zoos should be used to preserve and reproduce this animals n/t