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Leg Tags

To: "Paul Dodd" <>, "Ian May" <>
Subject: Leg Tags
From: "Peter Shute" <>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:09:42 +1000
The article said that reducing habitat to 10% (i.e by 90%) causes "only"
50% of species to eventually disappear.  Still a worry though, given
that the Mt Lofty Ranges habitat has been reduced by 90%.

Peter Shute

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>  On Behalf Of Paul Dodd
> Sent: Monday, 30 June 2008 3:48 PM
> To: 'Ian May'
> Cc: 'Baus'
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Leg Tags

> Clearly habitat loss is one of the most significant issues
> that we must deal with in trying to conserve species - the
> truly worrying element is that reducing the habitat size by
> half can reduce the number of species supported by that
> habitat by much more than half.
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