| What's more frightening than ghosts, goblins, and witches? Real life, of course. Here on Earth, we're losing dozens of species each day -- which means planetary life is dying out more than 1,000 times faster than in pre-human history. And that's no Halloween ghost story. Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals in the past half-billion years -- a nightmare of global proportions.
But we can't blame the situation on zombies or ghouls. The culprit is Homo sapiens. From the massive amount of greenhouse gas we emit to the lands and waters we rampantly destroy to the simple fact that there are far too many of us (and we keep multiplying like gremlins), the main thing we have to fear in the extinction crisis is ourselves.
Scared yet?
The good news is, together we can stop rare animals and plants from disappearing into the spirit world. With your help, the Center for Biological Diversity has been successfully fighting extinction for more than 20 years. We have the power to get the message out and protect imperiled plants, animals, and wild places. Help us avoid climate-change catastrophe and save countless endangered species from the grave.
The first step is educating people about the problem -- and this Halloween is a great time to do it. The Center isn't all doom and gloom -- we're making taking action a treat this week with five clever endangered species and conservation e-postcards you can share with all your friends. Think of them as a scare tactic for change.
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Gila monster photo (c) Robin Silver.
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