Hippos endangered? The planet really is f...ked!

[marmar]

I thought there were plenty of hippos. This is getting scary... :scared:


Hippopotamus among 26,000 New Species on Endangered List
by Barrie Clement


More than 26,000 species of animals, birds, plants and fish will this week be added to the list of those in serious danger of extinction. Thousands of species including the common hippotamus are to be added or moved up the so-called "red list" drawn up by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

The alarming study by the union, one of the most authoritative pictures of world flora and fauna, will make clear that global warming and human activity is responsible.

The report will confirm that the common skate, once abundant around Britain, has been virtually wiped out. The fish is still stocked by some supermarkets and fishmongers, but there is increasing pressure on them to ban it in the same way that cod has been removed from many retailers' shelves

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0501-07.htm

[htuttle]

1. The only species there's "plenty of" nowdays are humans,...

...the species' we've domesticated (dogs, cattle, wheat), and the species' that live off of us (such as rats).

It seems like nearly every other species is at risk at this point.

[Submariner]

2. The Hippo is going the way of s many other critters due to overpopulation

by humans, but don't try to explain that to the fundies without their heads exploding.

[marmar]

3. That picture of the baby hippo with the tortoise is priceless...

:)