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- Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World
- Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Arctic Realm
- Chapter 2 The Palearctic Realm
- Chapter 3 The Afrotropical Realm
- Chapter 4 The Madagascan Realm
- Chapter 5 The Indo-Malaysian Realm
- Chapter 6 The Papua-Melanesian Realm
- Chapter 7 The Australian Realm
- Chapter 8 The Polynesian Realm
- Chapter 9 The Nearctic Realm
- Chapter 10 The Caribbean Realm
- Chapter 11 The Neotropical Realm
- Chapter 12 The Patagonian Realm
- Chapter 13 The Antarctic Realm
- Chapter 14 The Oceanic Realm
- Chapter 15 Global Balance
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 15 - Global Balance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2023
- Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World
- Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Arctic Realm
- Chapter 2 The Palearctic Realm
- Chapter 3 The Afrotropical Realm
- Chapter 4 The Madagascan Realm
- Chapter 5 The Indo-Malaysian Realm
- Chapter 6 The Papua-Melanesian Realm
- Chapter 7 The Australian Realm
- Chapter 8 The Polynesian Realm
- Chapter 9 The Nearctic Realm
- Chapter 10 The Caribbean Realm
- Chapter 11 The Neotropical Realm
- Chapter 12 The Patagonian Realm
- Chapter 13 The Antarctic Realm
- Chapter 14 The Oceanic Realm
- Chapter 15 Global Balance
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The previous sections have provided a detailed account of the situation for vertebrate species and subspecies throughout the various continents and oceans of the world. It is a grim chronicle of animal exterminations and an almost unbelievable misuse of living natural resources – in the past due to ignorance, in modern times due to the deliberate desire for short-term profit – and without any sense of responsibility to our fellow human beings or regard for future generations. The gruesome picture, expressed in naked figures of extinct and threatened vertebrates during the last 500 years, appears in the table below.
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- Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the WorldA Biogeographic Approach, pp. 626 - 628Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023