Worth Saving?

[TheCock]

Are these creatures worth saving? 100 animals plants and fungi could be extinct by 2020. This news makes me sad:tearyeyed

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glanceview/255531/40-species-that-could-disappear.glance

Softshelled turtle looks like a hideous swamp monster lol

 

[TheCock]

Full list of animals, some with only 250 in the wild.

1. Ploughshare tortoise

2. Rio Pescado stubfoot toad

3. Northern Muriqui, Wooly Spider Monkey

4. Pygmy three-toed sloth

5. Tarzan's chameleon

6. Seychelles sheath-tailed bat

7. Jamaican iguana

8. Cayman Islands ghost orchid

9. Wild yam

10. Spoon-billed sandpiper

11. Liben lark

12. Singapore freshwater crab

13. Edward's pheasant

14. Attenborough's pitcher plant

15. Luristan newt

16. Vaquita

17. Greater bamboo lemur

18. Saola

19. Red River giant softshell turtle

20. Javan rhino

21. Cebu frill-wing

22. Red-finned Blue-eye

23. Estuarine pipefish

24. Suicide Palm, Dimaka

25. Bullock's false toad

26. Baishan fir

27. Actinote zikani

28. Leaf scaled sea-snake

29. Amani flatwing

30. Araripe manakin

31. Antisolabis seychellensis

32. Aci Göl toothcarp

33. Bulmer's fruit bat

34. White bellied heron

35. Great indian bustard

36. Madagascar pochard

37. Galapagos damsel fish

38. Giant yellow croaker

39. Four-toed terrapin

40. Bazzania bhutanica

41. Hirola

42. Franklin's bumblebee

43. Callitriche pulchra

44. Santa Catarina's guinea pig

45. Roloway guenon

46. Willow blister

47. Nelson's small-eared shrew

48. Sumatran rhino

49. Amsterdam albatross

50. Diospyros katendei

51. Dipterocarpus lamellatus

52. Discoglossus nigriventer

53. Dombeya mauritania

54. Elaeocarpus bojeri

55. Eleutherodactylus glandulifer

56. Macaya breast-spot frog

57. Chilenito

58. Coral tree

59. Euphorbia tanaensis

60. Ficus katendei

61. Northern bald ibis

62. Gigasiphon macrosiphon

63. Gocea ohridana

64. Table mountain ghost frog

65. Hemicycla paeteliana

66. Hibiscadelphus woodii

67. Sakhalin taimen

68. Belin vetchling

69. Archey's frog

70. Dusky gopher frog

71. Magnolia wolfii

72. Margaritifera marocana

73. Moominia willii

74. Cuban greater funnel eared bat

75. Hainan gibbon

76. Mulanje red damsel

77. Pangasid catfish

78. Parides burchellanus

79. Picea neoveitchii

80. Qiaojia pine

81. Peacock tarantula

82. Fatuhiva monarch

83. Common sawfish

84. Silky sifaka

85. Geometric tortoise

86. Psiadia cataractae

87. Beydaglari bush-cricket

87. Tonkin snub-nosed monkey

89. West australian underground orchid

90. Boni giant sengi

91. Rosa arabica

92. Durrell’s vontsira

93. Red crested tree rat

94. Angel shark

95. Chinese crested tern

96. Okinawa spiny rat

97. Somphongs’s rasbora

98. Valencia letourneuxi

99. Forest coconut

100. Attenborough’s echidna

 

[Contrarian]

There's even a rare creature called decency that's going extinct.

Jokes (even bad ones) aside, I think we're just too far gone by now. Of course I wish I'm wrong. Just look at the urbans prawl now. Even by the early 90s you could still drive to Bunbury and see heaps of greenery.

It's all gone. Everybody wants cheap housing and nobody wants to pay more for a townhouse/apartment/flat closer to town.

Result? Environmental damage. Like the population experts say of Perth; "How much longer can we keep carving bush?"

My answer is that it'll happen 'til there's no environment left.

 

[Jazzmine]

Are they worth saving? OF COURSE! Absolutely!

Each individual flora and fauna is here for a reason, they all play their part in and out of their own niches. We all help the world keep going round, sustaining each other. Sadly, because of humans-- A lot of these more vulnerable critters are becoming closer and closer to extinction. (sure it's not all the fault of humans, sometimes things do slowly become extinct on their own accord, but we certainly help them along).

Such beautiful pictures, and to think that one day that's all they will be- memories and pictures :sad10::sad10::sad10:

But what to do? Where to start? Endangered Species programmes run by fantastic selfless volunteers and communities? Education? Or are we too far past that? Too many people worried about themselves, their future and their material goods, not enough people worrying about others and the Earth's future. We're killing what we were lucky enough to be gifted-- Can't see it ending well xx

 

[Naughty Thoughts]

If the population has gone below around 500, then the species is, for all intents and purposes, already extinct. If a given species only has 250 or 50 or a handful of individual animals left then there is not enough genetic diversity for that species to thrive. They might "survive" and have carefully managed population under strict human control, but they would only be surviving, not really living.

A movie like "Rio" spreads the incorrect idea that a species can be repopulated with just two (or a few) individuals - all the offspring will be directly related to each other. I think it was the white tigers that they have stopped breeding as genetic profiling found that they are all related to each other.

Sorry lads, the "we're the last two humans alive" pick-up line won't work...

 

[Happy2]

Sorry NT but that line will still be used What fella on the make gives a toss about the resultant issue Its 9months down the road
The Bedroom is only 10minutes down the road

 

[Naughty Thoughts]

I didn't say it wouldn't be used, I said it wouldn't work. lol