Pikas Have Gone Extinct Five Times In The Last 10 Years

Local extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold in the last 10 years, and the rate at which the climate-sensitive species is moving up mountain slopes has increased 11-fold, since the 20th century.

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/215990

What a crock. I’ve lived near the mountains most of my life, and spent a couple of summers 30 years ago working as a wilderness ranger at 10,000 and 12,000 feet. The flora and fauna hasn’t changed a bit. There are Pikas all over the place. Who are these nutcases?

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One Response to Pikas Have Gone Extinct Five Times In The Last 10 Years

  1. Jimbo says:

    American Pikas have been declared a species of least concern. It’s more scaremongery. Have you ever heared they say that rats in the wild a going locally extinct. Oh no! Just more lies to extract money from a gullible public.

    Species of Least Concern – American Pika
    http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41267/0

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