Video: Saving the stag beetle
The biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, nearly all in last two centuriesJuliette JowitMore than two animals and plants a year are becoming extinct in England and hundreds more are severely threatened, a report published today reveals.Natural England, the government's agency responsible for the countryside, said the biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, all but a dozen in the last two centuries.The losses recorded compare with a natural rate of about one extinction every 20 years before humans dominated the planet, but are almost certainly an underestimate because of poor records of any but the "biggest, scariest" creatures before the 1800s.The high rate at which species are being lost is set to continue. Almost 1,000 other species face "severe" threats from the same problems that drove their relatives extinct - hunting, pollution, development, poor land management, invasive s
Video: Saving the stag beetle
The stag beetle is Britain's largest insect and one of our most endangered species
Thu 11 Mar 10 from Guardian.co.uk
Our paradise lost: Revealed, the 492 native species driven to extinction
Nearly 500 species of plant and animal native to England have been wiped out in the past 2,000 years - with most vanishing in the previous two centuries alone.
Wed 10 Mar 10 from Daily Mail
More than two extinct species a year in England, report reveals
The biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, nearly all in last two centuriesJuliette JowitMore than two animals and plants a ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from Guardian.co.uk
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