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1.   Explain the problem of species extinction, its relationship to biodiversity, and why we should be concerned.

2.   Discuss factors that affect species extinction. Include: climate change, loss of habitat; human population and consumption; culturally-motivated practices; illegal wildlife trade

 Asia’s Biodiversity vanishing into the Marketplace (Science Daily, February 2004) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/04021…

Rarest of the rare

(Science Daily, April 2010)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/10040…

Biodiversity loss raises risk of ‘extinction cascades’ (University of Exeter, 2018) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/08050…

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-biodiversity-loss-ex…

Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction

(Science Daily, 2019)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/1908…

Nearly one in four of world’s mammals at risk of disappearing forever (Science Daily, October 2008) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/08100…

Climate change disrupts local plant diversity, study reveals (Science Daily, 2019) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/1908…

Catharine Grant, Eating Endangered Animals (New Internationalist, April 2011) http://www.newint.org/blog/books/2011/04/05/eating…

Ross Crockford, Bad Medicine (New Internationalist, March 1997) http://www.newint.org/features/1997/03/05/bad/