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Stuart Pimm
Stuart Pimm, a professor at Duke University and at the University of Pretoria's Conservation Ecology Research Unit, was awarded the 2006 Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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The Extinction Puzzle
Stuart Pimm Series: Science and Society 2007-03-09With six billion humans and counting – and our individual consumption growing – we face enormous challenges in using our natural resources sustainably. And there is one clear measure of how we perform at that task: extinction rates. For this reason, some colleagues and I have calculated the rate at which bird species became extinct in the recent past and the rate at which they will likely become extinct in the future. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 21644
