College of Forestry

Global Trophic Cascades Program

Overhunting poses extinction risk

The Gazette Times, October 18, 2016: Hunting is pushing hundreds of mammal species ever closer to extinction, according to an international study led by Oregon State University ecologist William Ripple. In the first global assessment of its kind, Ripple and his fellow researchers analyzed data on more than 1,100 terrestrial mammals already listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

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