12,000 species under threat of extinction.

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Another 2,000 species have been added to the annual Red List of the world's most endangered animals and plants. BBC

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

One of the things I try not to think about, because I'm not sure much can be done about it, is that at the rate Arctic ice is vanishing, we could easily lose polar bears within a century.