HK BSAP fiddles while sixth mass extinction proceeds

[DocMartin Williams]

“Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations – notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change,” the study’s authors write.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11687091/Earth-has-entered-sixth-mass-extinction-warn-scientists.html

 

– no such sense of urgency evident in Hong Kong’s BSAP [loadacrap] efforts to date.

Instead, woefully feeble “conservation” efforts let damage continue at Pui O and elsewhere; deaths by 1000 cuts… [not that HK is unique in this]

 

Interestingly, I think, the selection of ten endangered animals at end of article includes two HK species: S China Tiger already extinct here [v likely from wild], and Chinese Pangolin.

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