A new article “Biodiversity and Why it Matters” has been added to Cackel – The Sound of Your Opinion site.

By Frank Schiavone

Habitat and species loss is a major challenge in Southern California. In fact, Southern California has been identified as one of eight “hot spots” worldwide where species loss is occurring at unprecedented rates. Many of the plant and animal communities here rank as some of the most threatened in the world. According to a nationwide survey of biologists by the American Museum of Natural History, “seven out of ten biologists believe that we are in the midst of a mass extinction of living things, and that this loss of species will pose a major threat to human existence in the next century.”

Read the full article on boidiversity and why it’s so important.



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