Wildlife woes.

• Position: UPDATES - Decline in wildlife population - Brief article

See "bye, bye, birdie," July/August 2006, p. 28

Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25 percent, marine species by 28 percent, and freshwater species by 29 percent, in what the study calls one of the "great extinction episodes" in Earth's...