Many people don't realize that we are in the midst of a massive species die-off. The loss of species diversity may ultimately be more of a threat to the eco-net than global warming. In the meantime, we're losing so many of the animal people who share the planet with us. One reason I miss Steve Irwin so much was because of his optimism: his conviction that you could change things on a large scale by working locally.
Heart-breaking, this is. From Celsias ("Cooling the Planet One Project at a Time").
[W]e hear of the demise of various species often now, yet for most of us, it falls into a part of our mind relegated for things that are either not relevant to us, or to that area in our brain where we store thoughts we don’t know how to deal with, or that we decide are not our problem. There’s no heartbreak, no tears, no wave goodbye. We’re detached, separate, unfeeling.
Today the BBC ran an article on the Panamanian Golden Frog (technically it’s a toad, but let’s not split hairs). It’s an amazing piece of footage of the final wave goodbye (literally and figuratively) of a beautiful creature few ever came to know. Watch the clip.
The whole species is now extinct in Panama - this was one of the last remaining populations. Its final wave was in our programme. — BBC
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