Extinction is forever. Can we stop the slide in bio-diversity?
Photo: Bill Ross / CORBIS
Biologists call it the sixth extinction. There have been five great mass extinctions in the history of the earth including:
Today’s extinction is different. It’s human-made rather than natural. There is a natural rate of extinction – evolution wouldn’t exist without it.
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