The New Age of Extinction
Vanishing ActBy Bryan Walsh
From Time April, 13 2009
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Index
• Where is Madagascar?• Andasibe-Mantadia National Park• The Extinction waves• The sixth wave• Madagascar’s animals• Bibliography
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Where is Madagascar?• Madagascar is in many ways an Earth
apart, where animals and plants evolve into forms utterly original
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Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
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The extinction waves
• There have been five extinction waves in the planet's history
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The sixth wave
• This time the cause is human activities
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Madagascar animals• Madagascar has seen more than 80% of
its original vegetation cut down
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Leaf-tailed gecko• Uroplatus fimbriatus is a gecko which is
found in eastern Madagascar
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Parson's chameleon• The Calumma parsonii is a species of
chameleon • it is endemic to isolated pockets of humid
primary forest in eastern and northern Madagascar
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PYGMY MOUSE LEMUR• Microcebus myoxinus
is the second smallest of the mouse lemurs.
• It lives in dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar
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CARNIVOROUS FOSSA• Cryptoprocta ferox is
a mammal endemic to Madagascar
• The fossa hunts small to medium sized animals, from fish to birds
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GOLDEN FROG• Mantella is a genus
of frogs, endemic to Madagascar
• The iridescent colors reflect the toxic nature of their skins
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Bibliography• The New Age of Extinction, Bryan Walsh,
Time,13 April 2009• Animals under siege, T. Boucher, Time, April 13,
2009• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki (last access 05-2010)• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki (last access
05-2010)
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Liceo scientifico A. Oriani RavennaSchool year: 2009-2010
Interdisciplinary project: Man and the environment-Climate changes
and endangered speciesSubjects involved: English, I.T.
Teachers involved: Prof.ssa SiboniClass: 1°C P.N.I.
Students involved: Girau Luca e Terrazzi Paolo