Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to 'empty landscapes'

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceMay 1, 2015, 1:59 pm164 pts
Ten thousand years from now, human historians—or alien ones—may view the current wave of biodiversity loss and extinctions as concurrent with the Pleistocene extinction. At that time, peaking around 11,000 years ago, many scientists argue that human hunters killed off the majority of the world's big…

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