Human-driven extinction of bird species twice as high as thought, study says
by Sophie Kevany from Science | The Guardian on (#6H8KR)
About 12% of birds have died out as result of human activity in past 120,000 years, say scientists
About 12% of the world's bird species have been driven to extinction by human activity, new research has found - double previous estimates.
The study, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, estimates that about 1,430 bird species have died out since the Late Pleistocene period, which started about 120,000 years ago.
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