RIP Nesiota elliptica, et al.(Asia)(global biodiversity study)(International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources )(Brief Article) From: Earth Island Journal | Date: March 22, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Earth Island Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the past two decades, 15 species have vanished. Another 15,589 face the same fate. Current extinction rates are at least one hundred to one thousand times higher than "natural" patterns.

The most comprehensive global biodiversity study ever conducted--the 2004 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species and Global Species Assessment--was unveiled at the world's largest conservation gathering in Bangkok. <...