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by sneela 714 days ago
> Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino dies for its horn.

I didn't know this statistic before - this is disheartening.

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Here’s another one : between 24 and 150 animal species go extinct probably every day !

> current extinctions were ‘up to 100 times higher than the background rate.’

https://e360.yale.edu/features/global_extinction_rates_why_d...