The mystery the Dinosaurs!

World's Species Going Extinct

The Living Planet index which was released yesterday (Friday) shows that due to destructive human activity, the diversity of all life on earth has decreased by over 30%, nearly a third in fact in the past thirty-five years.

The Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network also gave the following statistics: land species have declined by 25%, marine life by 28% and freshwater species by 29%. The reports editor Jonathan Loh stated that to see such a sharp fall off in the species of the planet was "completely unprecedented in terms of human history". "You'd have to go back to the extinction of the dinosaurs to see a decline as rapid as this... In terms of human lifespan we may be seeing things change relatively slowly, but in terms of the world's history this is very rapid."

You'd have thought this would be in the headlines..... Are we watching the mystery of an overnight (in history terms) extinction? The Dinosaurs disappeared... none left. All they left us with is a riddle... lets hope the joke is not on the living creatures of our time.

You can read more on the link below - it's quite shocking

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/an-epidemic-of-extinctions-decimation-of-life-on-earth-829325.html

Thats really quite upsetting because I'm quite an animal lovver myself and the thought of species going extinct is dreadlfull

I really don't like the thought of a planet in distress but the nightmare is reality and with something as huge as this money means nothing so come on leaders of the world invest in something like solar panels on roofs and making all these great invention ideas come true  

 I like dinosaurs even though they are extinct

I think it is because the were so big!

Hi All Footprint Friends,,

How many butterflies have you seen this year... I saw a news report about the lack of butterflies.. and in the news this week is the huge reduction in the puffin bird... there is a lot of information on the Internet about plant loss and species loss and ways in which people are taking action - what do you think about this?