Maybe the last Passenger Pigeon wasn't shot

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Maybe the last Passenger Pigeon wasn't shot

nick hoffman — 9/2/2007 11:30:01 AM (archived)

Certainly the last Tasmanian Tiger died in a zoo. Dodo's seemed to die from rats, The Yangtze White Dolphin has just become extinct through industrial pollution and negligence.

There are many specific causes, one overriding one - Human pressure...

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Damn Tree Huggers - Jams Brown - 8/31/2007 9:25:56 PM
- Jobs vs Environment - ER - 9/1/2007 11:10:53 AM
  - Just ask the Swiss - Lee - 9/1/2007 2:53:23 PM
    - Probably because they regulate it very heavily. - ER - 9/1/2007 8:53:39 PM
- Before we pat ourselves on the back... - ER - 9/1/2007 10:57:42 AM
  - Indeed. - Un_Epi_De_Mais - 9/1/2007 4:24:21 PM
- Who said they were cut down? - Lee - 8/31/2007 10:17:58 PM
  - Maybe the last Passenger Pigeon wasn't shot - nick hoffman - 9/2/2007 11:30:01 AM
    - As a matter of fact, it wasn't - Fox - 9/2/2007 3:31:46 PM
    - It's not just human pressure. - ER - 9/2/2007 2:53:14 PM
      - Absolutely. - ER - 9/2/2007 8:50:41 PM
        
        re: Absolutely. - TB - 9/2/2007 9:36:21 PM
        
        re: Absolutely. - nick hoffman - 9/3/2007 12:53:17 PM
        
        Free oxygen? No panic needed. - TB - 9/3/2007 5:05:48 PM
        
        Lothar of the Hill People - ER - 9/3/2007 1:45:43 AM
        
        A few comments - TB - 9/3/2007 2:35:20 AM
        
        re: A few comments - ER - 9/3/2007 3:33:07 AM
        
        Uh, what about the Chinese? - nick hoffman - 9/3/2007 1:08:04 PM
        
        A few more comments - ER - 9/3/2007 4:37:57 AM
        
        A very good question. - TB - 9/3/2007 6:01:12 AM
        
        Egypt - TB - 9/3/2007 4:26:10 AM
        
        re: Egypt - ER - 9/3/2007 4:54:19 AM
        
        Oops... - TB - 9/3/2007 6:02:24 AM
        
        IMO, mammoths being hunted to extinction is nonsense. - Lee - 9/2/2007 10:14:18 PM
        
        Bison - got close... - nick hoffman - 9/3/2007 1:27:29 PM
        
        Not by neolithic hunter gatherers. (n/t) - Lee - 9/3/2007 6:36:35 PM
        
        Controversial, but not nonsense - TB - 9/2/2007 10:21:48 PM
        
        If that's true - Lee - 9/2/2007 11:54:27 PM
        
        One could assume that mammoth's reproduction was equivalent to elephant's. - alcaray - 9/4/2007 11:21:57 PM
      - re: It's not just human pressure. - TB - 9/2/2007 7:48:06 PM
        
        Sorry, my response, "Absolutely", appears above (n/t) - ER - 9/2/2007 8:55:06 PM
  - re: Who said they were cut down? - James Brown - 9/1/2007 12:22:58 AM
    - Perspective - TB - 9/1/2007 1:29:35 AM
      - re: Perspective - James Brown - 9/1/2007 3:23:40 AM

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