BIRDS DYING OFF AT UNPRECEDENTED RATE

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DAVID RANDALL, INDEPENDENT, UK - The biggest and most wide-ranging bird
conservation program the world has ever seen will be launched next week
with the aim of saving every one of the planet's critically endangered
species from extinction. The task is urgent. There are now no fewer than
189 birds in this most precipitous category – 51 more than there were
just seven years ago. Scientists say that if no action is taken then all
of them could be gone within the next 10 years; 15 are already
classified as "possibly extinct ".

The death of bird species is now happening faster than at any time in
history. Without human interference, the natural rate of loss would be
one bird each century. But extinctions are accelerating and running at
50 times that rate. In the past 30 years alone, 21 have gone – three
of them since 2000.

MORE INCLUDING LIST OF ENDANGERED BIRDS
http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2856857.ece

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