Scary report: The world is on the verge of mass extinction, people are not far away!

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According to renowned American scientists, the world is on the verge of mass extinction of six species.
Species are disappearing 114 times faster than before, warn scientists who claim that humans could be among the first species to disappear.
According to scientists from Princeton, Stanford and Berkeley universities, this rate of species extinction has not been seen since the age of dinosaurs some 66 million years ago.
Paul Ehrlich from Stanford University, who has been dealing with disappearances since 1980, says that “there is no doubt that we are entering the sixth mass extinction”, Telegrafi reports.
The report of the scientists of these universities has met with criticism from other scientists who estimate that they are exaggerating things. But the team does not give up.
“If we allow this to continue, life will take millions of years to recover, but our species will die out – in all likelihood at an early stage. We are breaking the branch we are sitting on,” adds Gerardo Ceballos.
Since 1900, the report says over 400 species of vertebrates have gone extinct. This loss, under normal circumstances, would occur in 10 thousand years. And this, according to the report published in the journal “Science Advances”, happens because of climate change, pollution and deforestation.
The team of scientists says that “the average rate of loss of vertebrate species over the past 100 years is 114 times higher than it would have been without negative human activity”.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature supports these alarming data and states that the level of danger exists in 26 percent of mammals and 41 percent of amphibians. Ehrlich calls these types “the living dead”.
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Last year, Stuart Pimm – a biologist and extinction expert from Duke University – also warned of a sixth mass extinction. But, he said that the extinction rate is 1000 times greater, not 114 as it is said today.
The authors of the new report also say that it is possible to avoid a “dramatic destruction of biodiversity” through intensive conservation, but that this requires a rapid response. /Telegraph/