A chilling warning that we’re in danger of wiping out all wildlife on EarthIn 2000,workers finished construction of a hydropower plant in Tanzania’s Udzungwa mountains. A giant reservoir was created by damming 90% of the water that had previously poured into nearby Kihansi gorge. The consequences for indigenous species were disastrous, in particular for the tiny, or golden-hued Kihansi spray toad. The itsy-bitsy amphibian once thrived,in its thousands, in a single two-hectare patch of forest watered with spray from the gorge’s falls. Those waters dried up, and as did the itsy-bitsy homeland of the toad,which became extinct in the wild within a couple of years. Thus the stop product of a million years of evolution was removed from nature by a single act of thoughtless habitat intrusion.
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Source: theguardian.com