Quote by Anthony D. Barnosky

“Over the past 400 years, the extinction rate for mammals appears to be between 17 percent and 377 percent faster than normal.”

— Anthony D. Barnosky

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough…

— Bill Mollison

“The cause of these great extinctions, the most extensive in the seventy-million-year record for mammals, is a mystery. The two prevailing guesses, climatic environmental…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

“background extinction.” In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.”

— Steven Magee

The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction,…

— Eban Goodstein

Every species we cause to become extinct we come closer to our own extinction

— Unkown

Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont…

— Paul Watson

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens,…

— Michael Smith

“Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world’s most endangered class of animals; it’s been calculated that the group’s extinction rate could…

— Elizabeth Kolbert