Earth Equity News

Spring: Not Silent Yet, but Ever-Quieter. By Hanneke Brooymans, Canwest News Service (Canada), September 23, 2008. “Common birds are in decline across the world, sending a clear signal there is something very wrong with the basic health of our environment, says [The State of the World's Birds, a study released Monday at the BirdLife International's World Conference in Buenos Aires]. Twenty of North America's most common bird species have declined more than 50% over the last 40 years... [and] around the world, one in eight bird species -- 1,226 species in total - face extinction, largely due to loss of habitat and climate change.”