Loss of Land-based Vertebrates is Accelerating | Media Coverage

Multiple outlets covered  the analysis of thousands of vertebrate species reveals that extinction rates are likely much faster than previously thought. The researchers, including Paul Ehrlich call for immediate global action, such as a ban on the wildlife trade, to slow the sixth mass extinction.

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Vertebrates on the Brink as Indicators of Biological Annihilation and the Sixth Mass Extinction

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Loss of Land-based Vertebrates is Accelerating 

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September 10, 2020 | Study: Humans 'Almost Entirely Responsible' for Mammal Extinctions | The Swaddle

August 1, 2020 | The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled | Reason

July 30, 2020 | Millions of Species Face Extinction Emergency | The Good Men Project

July 28, 2020 | Millions of Animals Trafficked Within and Out of Brazil Annually: Report | The Swaddle

July 26, 2020 | Stanford's Paul Ehrlich Discusses the On-going (and Accelerating) Sixith Mass Extinction | The Healthcare Policy Podcast

July 9, 2020 | Right Whales Are One Step From Extinction As Warmer Waters Push THem Northward into Boat Traffic | CNBC

July 6, 2020 | "Extinction Leads to Extinction:" Imperiled Wildlife Is Being Impacted By Humans | Wyoming Public Radio

June 26, 2020 | Biologists Say Mass Extinction Event is Accelerating: More than 500 Species Could Disappear by 2040 | Study Finds

June 22, 2020 | 'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation and Disease | NPR

June 16, 2020 | 'Biological Annihilation' Another Challenge for Humanity, MoBOT's Peter Raven Says | St. Louis Public Radio

June 9, 2020 | Less Than a Thousand Remain: New List of Animals on the Brink of Extinction | Mongabay

June 8, 2020 | Governments are Largely Unaware of the Scale of the Devestation Caused by Humans | Independent Online

June 6, 2020 | "Extinction Breeds Exctinctions": How Losing One Species Can Wipe Out Many More | Vox

June 6, 2020 | Sixth Mass Extinction Picks Up Pace, Threatening to Wipe Out Over 500 Species in Next 20 Years | Meaww

June 5, 2020 | Dozens of Rhinos Dehorned to Prevent Coronavirsu Lockdown Poaching Surge | CBS News

June 5, 2020 | Sixith Mass Extinction of Wildlife Accelerating Quicker than Expected | Nation of Change

June 5, 2020 | We Can Learn Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic in How We Tackle Climate Change | iNews (UK)

June 5, 2020 | Researchers Caution that the Earth is Rapidly Going Towards Mass Extinction | Day Web Chronicle

June 4, 2020 | Earth's Species Disappearing at an Alarming Rate | Science Magazine

June 4, 2020 | We Need Awareness and "Global Ambition" to Stop the Accelerating Mass Extinction of Wildlife | Upload Comet

June 3, 2020 | The Earth is Currently Undergoing a Sixth Mass Extinction — And It's Accelerating | Mic

June 3, 2020 | Already Unprecedented Rate of Wildlife Extinction Is Accelerating | Smithsonian Magazine

June 3, 2020 | Humans are Now Driving Earth's Mass Extinction Faster, Experts Warn | Medical Daily 

June 3, 2020 | The Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction is Accelerating | Popular Mechanics

June 3, 2020 | Many Land Animals 'Will Go Extinct' in Just Two Decades | Sustainability Times

June 3, 2020 | Stanford Professor and his Collaborators Find in a New Study that the Sixth Mass Extinction is 'Human Caused and Accelerating.' Trump's Policy Rollbacks aren't Helping | The Rising

June 2, 2020 | Wildlife Conservation: More Than 500 Animal Species 'On the Brink of Extinction' | BBC

June 2, 2020 | The Sixth Mass Extinction is Happening Faster Than we Expected | VICE

June 2, 2020 | Extinction Crisis 'Poses Existential Threat to Civilisation' | BBC News

June 2, 2020 | The Extinction Crisis Is Accelerating, New Study Finds | Huffington Post

June 2, 2020 | Earth Accelerating Towards Sixth Mass Extinction Event That Could See 'Disintegration of Civilisation', Scientists Warn | The Independent

June 2, 2020 | The 'Human-Caused' Sixth Mass Extinction Is 'Likely Accelerating,' Study Suggests | Newsweek

June 2, 2020 | Animals and Plants are Going Extinct at an 'Unprecedented Rate,' Shocking Study Says | Fox News

June 2, 2020 | Study Finds Sixth Mass Extinction Accelerating at Unprecendented Rate | New Atlas

June 1, 2020 | Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report | The New York Times

June 1, 2020 | The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Happening Faster Than Expected. Scientists Say It's Our Fault | CNN

June 1, 2020 | With More Species at Risk of Extinction, Study Warns of "Biological Annihilation" | CBS News

June 1, 2020 | Sixth Mass Extinction of Wildlife Accelerating , Scientists Warn | The Guardian 

June 1, 2020 | Researchers Warn More than 500 Land Animals Species Could Go Extinct Within 20 Years | The Week

June 1, 2020 | More than 500 Land Vertebrate Species on the Brink of Extinction, Study Suggests | Irvine Times

June 1, 2020 | The Sixth Mass Extinction is Happening Faster than Expected. Scientists Say It's Our Fault | KITV