Word: extinctionism
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In East Germany it remained uncertain whether the Communist Party's last- ditch effort to fashion a new identity could save it from extinction. With the party's upper echelon disgraced, the taut discipline snapped down below. A half million of the 2.3 million cardholders have deserted the party in...
Biodiversity. UNEP is drafting an international biodiversity-conservation treaty. Among other things, it could provide financial incentives to protect tropical forests, whose destruction threatens thousands of life-forms with extinction.
"I'm convinced that if the ivory trade were not controlled, it would result in the extinction of the animals," said Leakey.
A decision to place yet another creature on the endangered-species list often goes unnoticed. But last week champagne flowed in Lausanne, Switzerland, and sighs of relief echoed around the world. Reason: delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to place the elephant, earth's...
In a speech entitled "Foragers, Farmers and Rainforest Conservation," David Wilkes said 1986 plans to create a 1.25 million hectacre "biosphere reserve" have been stalled by a lack of political willingness and financial support. As a result, the rainforest and the species that inhabit it are in danger of extinction...