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Wed 11 Nov 2009Ecologist warns of 'mega-extinction'
WE COULD be living through the greatest mass animal extinction of all time, bigger than the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. And there seems little we can do to stop it.
So suggested Jonathan Silvertown, professor of ecology in the department of life sciences at the Open University, before an “Ireland in 2030” lecture he gave yesterday in Dublin entitled Fragile Web: What Next for Nature?
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