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Multi-Billionaire’s Project Would Sacrifice Last Great Open Space in Los Angeles

Guest Post By Maria Kay Fotopoulos

Will the ‘Philosopher King’ Work for Wildlife or Double-Down on Vanity?

“All the news that’s fit to print” is the long-running tagline of The New York Times. If one were being polite, one would say The NY Times defines “fit” extremely broadly. More directly, the Times has a rich history of playing fast and loose with journalistic standards. From more of a PR-client relationship with the CIA, as independent journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote in a 2012 Guardian commentary, to other infractions he noted, including giving “veto power” over quotes for publication to former President Obama’s people.

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BE NICE TO A MAMMAL, BIRD, REPTILE, AMPHIBIAN, OR FISH TODAY

Infographic: Wildlife Populations Worldwide Have Plummeted | Statista

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According to a shocking report released by the World Wildlife Fund, half the planets’s wildlife population has vanished since 1970. The vast majority of this is due to human activity with exploitation and habitat degradation/loss being the primary culprits. Overall, 52 percent of the world’s mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish disappeared over that four decade period.

As bad as human activity has been on land, the world’s waterways have suffered devastating losses with freshwater wildlife populations plunging 76 percent. The majority of the general decline has occurred in low-income and developing nations. Even though some conservation projects have proven successful, the scale of the disastrous decline makes for grim reading.