Nearly one in five mammal, reptile, bird or amphibian species face extinction, according to reports from international conservation experts. If not preserved, within the next few years they will become extinct.
"Conservation is a hard job. Now is the time to raise the scale of conservation," said Ana Rodrigues of France's Centre d'Ecologie et Evolutive Fonctionelle as reported by USA Today, Thursday (10/27/2010).
Survey of extinction over the past five decades, published in the journal Science noted that approximately 25,780 species of vertebrates, or half of vertebrate endangered. In the study led by Michael Hoffman of the United Nations Environment Programme, the visible results of the survey showing that nearly one out of five endangered species (from 13 percent to 41 percent of birds amphibians), which means that the probability of extinction of animals is 50 percent larger in the past 10 years.
Drivers of extinction among others, due to the expansion of farmland, illegal logging, overfishing and competition of survival of the animals themselves. "This is a conservative estimate of the effects of conservation," said Taylor Ricketts, ecological experts from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington.
"The discovery of the threat of extinction is indeed is a news, but finding an effective way for a new worldwide conservation is an important news," Ricketts added.
The results of the survey were also presented at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan.