Wild Animals - Threatened arthropods: the uncataloged species sliding toward extinction
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Arthropods represent more than half of all higher life forms on Earth, yet evaluating their risk of extinction remains extraordinarily difficult. Independent estimates indicate millions of arthropod species remain entirely undocumented and unnamed. Biologists Deyrup and Eisner noted that habitat degradation progresses so quickly that there are not nearly enough scientists to catalog species edging toward extinction. Pressures like deforestation, urban fragmentation, and pesticides threaten countless invertebrates, but only a tiny fraction are formally evaluated or listed under international conservation protections.
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