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European hamster and caterpillar fungus on brink of extinction
Update to IUCN red list warns of hamster’s falling birth rate and high demand for fungusHamsters and fungi may not be poster species among those threatened with extinction but are no less important in ecosystems, according to an updated list of the world’s most fragile species.The European hamster once scurried across much of Europe and Russia but has now vanished from most of its original range and on current trends will go extinct within 30 years, according to the update of the IUCN red list, the global database of species on the brink. Continue reading...
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