Twenty-one percent of all known mammals, 30% of all known amphibians, and 12% of all known birds now face extinction, according to the Red List Index.
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If you think you have too big of a family, then you clearly haven’t met the horseshoe crab, the females produce about 90,000 eggs. Why so many you ask? Well out of those 90,000 eggs, the mom horseshoe crab can only expect 10 to survive.
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=531&ArticleID=5775&l=en
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
Bats are small, but mighty – mighty loud that is. These flying mammals are louder than any known animal in air, emitting sounds exceeding 140 dB. Compare that to a loud rock concert at 115-120 dB.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429204244.htm
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
The jaguar is the only large, wide-ranging carnivore in the world with no subspecies. This means that these cats travel often and very, very far to breed with other jaguars from Mexico to Brazil.
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
Mother nature is a lean mean cleaning machine, at least when it comes to water filtration. Canada’s boreal forest contains wetlands that filter millions of litres of water a day!
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2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
Madagascar is a very special island. It is found off the coast of Africa and is home to about 13,000 species of plants and 849 species of animals. What makes this even more interested is that 98% of its land mammals, 92% of its reptiles, 68% of its plants and 41% of its breeding bird species exist nowhere else on Earth!
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and Earth Rangers has teamed up with The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to bring you a daily dose of biodiversity basics
Have you ever wondered why fall leaves are sometimes brighter then they were a year before? Well, it has a lot to do with sunshine and heat. Sunlight produces sugars in the leaves, which is important for creating anthocyanins pigments. It is this pigment that makes those bright red leaves! Neat huh?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100928152804.htm
If you’re the type of guy or girl to scream and run from creepy crawlies then here’s a reason to show some love for insects, they may just save your life.
Researchers have been looking at how bugs, like cockroaches, can stay alive even though they live in some of the most germ infested places in the world. It turns out the bacteria fighting power of cockroaches is all in their brains. There is a lot of research that needs to be done before we can buy cockroach brain juice at your local pharmacy but we may one day be able to fight infections better by learning from them.
You probably haven’t heard of the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), but they are well known in their home, the Kalahari region of Africa, because their nests are kinda hard to miss. These sociable weavers know how to think big when it comes to building, their nests can hold up to 400 other sociable weavers! Take a look at this massive bird mansion.
Coral reef are made up of a ton of calcium carbonate which is basically limestone. This calcium carbonate is secreted over thousands of years by billions of tiny soft bodied animals called coral polyps. All this secretion builds up over millions of years to create beautiful coral reefs. These reefs provide important habitat, giving homes to 25% of the planet’s marine species.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070515074933.htm
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