{"id":634,"date":"2019-03-28T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=634"},"modified":"2019-03-28T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:13:52","slug":"human-impact-on-threatened-terrestrial-vertebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/human-impact-on-threatened-terrestrial-vertebrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Biology<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: March 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: PLOS | Biology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/endangered-species-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/endangered-species-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/endangered-species-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/endangered-species-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/endangered-species-1.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Endangered &amp; Extinct Species<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A global analysis of cumulative human impacts on threatened species  on the distribution of 5,457 terrestrial vertebrates show that impacts to species are widespread, occurring across <strong>84% of Earth\u2019s surface.<\/strong> Almost one-quarter of assessed species are impacted across &gt;90% of their distribution, and approximately 7% are impacted across their entire range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at : <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3000158\">PLOS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mme Blavatsky wrote (The Theosophist, Vol. VII, N\u00b0 76, January 1886) : &#8221; <em>Evolution starts to mold future humanities within the lower scales of being. Therefore, by killing an animal, or even an insect, we arrest the progress of an entity towards its final goal in nature &#8211; MAN ; and to this the student of occult knowledge may say that it not only retards the evolution of that entity, but arrests that of the next succeeding human and more perfect race to come<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology Date: March 2019 Source: PLOS | Biology A global analysis of cumulative human impacts on threatened species on the distribution of 5,457 terrestrial vertebrates show that impacts to species are widespread, occurring across 84% of Earth\u2019s surface. Almost one-quarter of assessed species are impacted across &gt;90% of their distribution, and approximately 7% are impacted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/human-impact-on-threatened-terrestrial-vertebrates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}