No one knows exactly how many plants and animals are vanishing from the world around us, but a rough estimate is that we lose one species every hour. Humans have never witnessed an extinction event like the one we’re living through right now – one that's wiping out wildlife all around us, from birds to bears, plants and insects. Tierra Curry lays out the extinction crisis, what’s been lost, how wildlife declines affect us in ways we don’t notice and what can be done. Episode credits: 

Produced, edited and mixed by Mike Stark and Vanessa Barchfield
Artwork by Izzi Stein
Music by Up Rabbit Mountain

 

The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit
conservation organization with more than 1.8 million members and online
activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild
places.

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