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“What we’ve found is that one in four mammals are truly in peril, but these assessments were done largely without accounting for the potential impacts of climate change…. If we continue emitting greenhouse gases at the current rate, we’re looking at 40 percent loss of biodiversity by the end of the century.”

– Dr. Jonathan Baillie, director of conservation programs at the Zoological Society of London, discussing a new report warning of an “extinction crisis” threatening one-fourth of the world’s mammals due to habitat loss, hunting and climate change

Source: New York Times, Oct. 6.