Destruction Of Habitats | featured news

Booming Brazilian city spreads into Amazon habitats. Marcelo Gordo is standing in the back garden of a small house in a suburb of Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, hoping to catch sight of a pied tamarin.

Current extinction rate projections may be overestimating the role of habitat loss on species, a study suggest... Writing in the journal Nature, they said present figures overestimated rates by up to 160%, and called for updated, more accurate calculations.

Conservationists say rate of new species slower than diversity loss caused by the destruction of habitats and climate change.