New research shows our seas are in trouble

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uos-nrs012915.php

Public Release: 29-Jan-2015
University of Sheffield

New research by the University of Sheffield has warned of the increasing risk of extinction to our marine life.

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

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Dr Webb added: "When we concentrate on those groups of animals and plants which are best known, and where estimates of extinction risk are likely to be most reliable, the difference between marine and non-marine species disappears. Instead, in these groups around one in every four or five species is estimated to be at a heightened risk of extinction, whether they live on land or in the sea.

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