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November 20, 2008
Another nail in the coffin of biodiversity?
Image source: no-pest.com
When I was a kid growing up in the UK, the humble sparrow was often looked upon as a pest. Since the mid-1980s, however, its numbers have been steadily falling. A report on BBC news today reveals that the sparrow population is estimated to have fallen by 68% in the past three decades.
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Posted by jeremy at November 20, 2008 09:27 AM
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