Topic: Lizards succumb to global warming

[sam]

By 2080, global warming could result in one-fifth of the world's lizard species becoming extinct, a global study has found.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lizards-succumb-to-global-warming

[Rodders]

Our local conservation group is also doing their bit to extinguish the species.  They recently ordered contractors to reduce the bracken and gorse in a nearby nature reserve, but bulldozers left it looking like a lunar landscape.  Here's a fairly ropey picture (taken with my back-up mobile) that shows a Sand Lizard and Slow-worm before they were evicted.  The conservationists are now an endangered species.

[sam]

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