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REMEMBERING THE QUAGGA

JUNE 7th, 2010

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has estimated that species are becoming extinct at a rate 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than it would naturally be without humans. Whichever way you skin it that’s a pretty shameful statistic. A wide variety of weird and wonderful creatures have been made extinct in the name of human progress. Today at Neo we are going to celebrate the Quagga. Classified as a separate species in 1778, it was extinct by 1883, a measly 105 years of life as a Quagga. The Quagga was hunted into extinction for meat, hides and to preserve feed for domesticated stock. The world was left poorer as a result.

Source: Environmental Graffitti.

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