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ex·tinc·tions
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Global warming as a phenomenon is just beginning, species extinctions and other changes are far more advanced.
We would strongly advocate that first and foremost we need to protect our biodiversity from further extinctions, but unfortunately we are not seeing a slowing down in species loss, this technology offers a chance to correct this and could be applied in exceptional circumstances where cornerstone species have been lost.
Over the 100 to 200 million years before this die-off event there was a large amount of life on the planet, but after this event a huge portion died off, however, instead of recovering like more recent mass extinctions, the amount of life on the planet or size of the biosphere stayed small for the following billion years of Earths historyabout two billion to one billion years ago.
Despite their ungainly appearance, different species of glyptodonts occupied habitats as distinct as open grassland and dense woodland, all the way from Patagonia to the southern parts of the continental United States, although their disappearance has been blamed on human depredation as well as climate change, some species persisted into the early part of the modern or Holocene epoch, long after the disappearance of mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Like the loss of giant ground sloths, mastodons, and dozens of other remarkable mammalian species, the precise cause of the New World megafaunal extinctions remains uncertain.
In some parts of the African continent we are confronting potential local extinctions, in particular in central and western Africa.
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