- Over the last 20 years the Earth has lost half of its wildlife. The 12 episode 47 mins. series "Disappearing Species" will explore the cause and take a look into what can be done by the human population to reverse this alarming situation.
- "Disappearing Species" explores the earths lost and endangered species.The Rhinocaust explores the path to eradicating poachers and the demand for the Rhino Horn. This majestic animal could well be eliminated from earth during your lifetime. Mike Kennedy takes you inside and behind the front lines of the effort to eliminate the supply and demand for the earths "Disappearing Species".—Mike Kennedy
- "Disappearing Species" explores the earths lost and endangered species. In episode 1 "The Rhinocaust" viewers explore the path to eradicating poachers and the demand for the Rhino Horn. This majestic animal could well be eliminated from earth during your lifetime. Our cameras take you inside and behind the front lines of the effort to eliminate the supply and demand for the earths last remaining Rhino's.
- "Disappearing Species" is a 12 episode series that takes a deeper look directly into the most endangered animals on earth. The African Elephant - The Rhinoceros - Snow Leopards - The Mountain Gorilla - The Bengal Tiger - The Blue Whale - The Jaguar - The Orangutan are just a few of the amazing creatures that make up the long list of the endangered animals that we can alter today.
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world's foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilization. What can we, has humans do to reverse this trend? The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.
Many scientists believe the world has begun a sixth mass extinction, the first to be caused by a species - Homo sapiens. Other recent analyses have revealed that humankind has destroyed 83% of all mammals and half of plants since the dawn of civilization and that, even if the destruction were to end now, it would take 5-7 million years for the natural world to recover.
The biggest cause of wildlife losses is the destruction of natural habitats, much of it to create farmland. Three-quarters of all land on Earth is now significantly affected by human activities. Killing for food is the next biggest cause - 300 mammal species are being eaten into extinction - while the oceans are massively over-fished, with more than half now being industrially fished.
Chemical pollution is also significant: half the world's killer whale populations are now doomed to die from PCB contamination. Global trade introduces invasive species and disease, with amphibians decimated by a fungal disease thought to be spread by the pet trade. Conservation efforts can work, with tiger numbers having risen 20% in India in six years as habitat is protected. Giant pandas in China and otters in the UK have also been doing well.
Only 25% of land on Earth is substantively free of the impacts of human activities. This is projected to decline to just 10% by 2050. We meet the amazing people that are dedicated to making a change and reverse the sad phenomenon of the Earth's Disappearing Species.
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