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11-13-2011, 11:54 PM
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Well, while I think poaching did give that species the last kick over the edge to exctinction, I am sure that it was hunted to the brink of that in the times of the colonial safaries and such before and also that it suffered greatly from habitat destruction. This is the story of so many large species. The small ones however are sadly often unnoticed. Numbers range up to 200 species a day that go extinct. Of course that includes insects and amphibians and such rather unnoticed species :s - And even if that number really is too high and it is only half as many, that still is crazy. Even if it is completly off and it is only 10%, that is so much more than what happened in the past. It is so sad.
By the way, there is a documentary "Last chance to see", originally by Douglas Adams that was revisited last year. They tried to find the northern white Rhino, which was on the brink of extinction in the original movie about 20 years ago - they could not find it 
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