James Rogers <jamesr@best.com> wrote on Friday, December 03, 1999 3:27 am,
> I always grouped the "over-population" crowd with the
> "endangered species" crowd; they erroneously extrapolate a local
> phenomenon to cover the entire planet. (For those unfamiliar with the
> topic, there are many "endangered species" that were listed as endangered
> because they no longer lived in an environmentalist's backyard.
> Nonetheless, many of those "endangered species" are flourishing by the
> millions in other, less visited, regions of the planet. See Alaska or
> Canada for several examples of over-populated "endangered species" in
North
> America.)
Facts, please! According to one study mentioned on <http://www.cnie.org/nle/biodv-1.html>, there are an average of 407 animals left in each species of invertebrates on the Endangered Species List.
This sounds like another urban legend being spouted as fact.
-- Harvey Newstrom <mailto://newstrom@newstaffinc.com> <http://harveynewstrom.com> Author, Consultant, Engineer, Legal Hacker, Researcher, Scientist.