"A new method co-developed by Anahí Espíndola, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, uses the power of machine learning and open-access data to predict species that could be eligible for at-risk status. The research team created and trained a machine learning algorithm to assess more than 150,000 species of plants from all corners of the world, making their project among the largest assessments of conservation risk to date. "

https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/new-machine-learning-method-predicts-possible-a...

Or you could refer to -

"Native plants and animals can rapidly become superabundant and dominate ecosystems, leading to claims that native species are no less likely than alien species to cause environmental damage, including biodiversity loss. We compared how frequently alien and native species have been implicated as drivers of recent extinctions in a comprehensive global database, the 2017 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Alien species were considered to be a contributing cause of 25% of plant extinctions and 33% of animal extinctions, whereas native species were implicated in less than 5% and 3% of plant and animal extinctions, respectively."

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/fee.2020

So alien species contributed 60%, man 60%.... 

Sir lastnail wrote on Nov 26^th, 2019 at 9:59am:

Bollocks on stilts, with knobs on.

It's  third wolders, not all humans. The tinted, ungovernable, racacious part of humanity.

Good post Nail.
All we need is the Hammer to reply. 

Seriously though - the is always over the 50%.

Along with Trees on this planet at 80% in since the Whiteys discovered that the Darkies covered most of the Planet in many other regions.

Species as 'listed', yes - 60+% of known and discovered have become extinct. Some have been saved from the brink of death - like the Orynx - of whom only 6 remained alive in Africa. Hunters from the USA took them from Namibia and ranched them in Texas back to 20,000... for Hunting of Course.

Humanity will NEVER find LIFE out there in the Galaxy.
Until it can save, maintain and grow LIFE here first - because the Galaxy is not 'just' for Humans.

The 60% figure in the OP does not refer to extinctions....Why do people deliberately miss represent the facts???



The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 191

" The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which involved more than a thousand experts, estimated an extinction rate that was later calculated at up to 8,700 species a year, or 24 a day. More recently, scientists at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity concluded that: “Every day, up to 150 species are lost.” That could be as much as 10 percent a decade.
golden toad
The golden toad, once abundant in parts of Costa Rica, was declared extinct in 2007. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

But nobody knows whether such estimates are anywhere close to reality. They are based on computer modeling, and documented losses are tiny by comparison. Only about 800 extinctions have been documented in the past 400 years, according to data held by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Out of some 1.9 million recorded current or recent species on the planet, that represents less than a tenth of one percent.

Nor is there much documented evidence of accelerating loss. In its latest update, released in June, the IUCN reported “no new extinctions,” although last year it reported the loss of an earwig on the island of St. Helena and a Malaysian snail. And some species once thought extinct have turned out to be still around, like the Guadalupe fur seal, which “died out” a century ago, but now numbers over 20,000.

Moreover, the majority of documented extinctions have been on small islands, where species with small gene pools have usually succumbed to human hunters. That may be an ecological tragedy for the islands concerned, but most species live in continental areas and, ecologists agree, are unlikely to prove so vulnerable. "

https://e360.yale.edu/features/global_extinction_rates_why_do_estimates_vary_so_
wildly

Johnnie wrote on Nov 26^th, 2019 at 8:03pm:



And seeing as the earth has no new environments?

Why can't the UN stop the Amazon from being destroyed?

Bobby. wrote on Nov 26^th, 2019 at 8:33pm:


I know, right? When the UN crypto-globalist-communist police state took over I expected some darn policing. Right now they're acting like they can't even tell national governments what to do.