Human activity has negatively affected animal populations on land for tens of thousands of years, with numerous instances where unsustainable hunting practices or deliberate, widespread acts of eradication have led to what scientists call “defaunation” — the human-caused global extinction of a species. -- Journalists Resource - Carnegie-Knight/Harvard Shorenstein Citation: McCauley, Douglas J. “Marine Defaunation: Animal Loss in the Global Ocean,” Science, January 2015, Vol. 347, No. 6219. doi: 10.1126/science.1255641.
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