Humans make up only 0.01% of life on Earth but destroy 83% of other species

Ecosystem on Earth is extremely wonderful when it has to balance and adapt itself to the environment. Regardless of the species, it contributes to the natural ecological chain and plays an important role in all stages. From tiny microorganisms to giant species like elephants, from aquatic life like fishes to birds in the sky, from predators like tigers to plants, everything Everybody has a reason to exist.

Humans are also creatures on Earth and, unfortunately, we are the rulers and heads of the food chain. However, the role of man with the earth is still quite obscure. Humans are at the forefront of ecosystems, so is our role to protect lesser species? But let's see what humans are doing to earth's mother.

Research shows that 7.6 billion people make up just 0.01% of all species and 86% of the land area, but we have destroyed 83% of the wildlife and 50% of the total. plants since the time of human civilization. In the past 50 years, about half of the animals on earth have been killed by direct or indirect causes from humans. Worse still, 300 years of fishing has left the ocean with only a fifth of all mammals left.

Humans have killed most of the creatures both on land and in water.

Many creatures today are actually raised by humans rather than wild animals.

Despite being at the top of the food chain and using up to 86% of the land, humans account for only 0.01% of the total species.

In fact, new bacteria are the most abundant form of living things in the world with 13% while plants make up 82% of the earth's life. All creatures from fish to animals make up only 5%.

Compared to the number, the fungus even 200 times more crowded than humans, the bacteria 1,200 times more crowded and the trees 7,500 times more.

It is interesting to note that although the massacre of most living things on earth, human livestock is contributing most to some species. About 70% of birds in the world today belong to farms, about 60% of mammals are now grazed by humans.

However, the very development of the livestock industry is devastating nature, leading to the 6th human genocide.

The number of other species outnumber humans many times.

Between 1990 and 2015, nearly half of the 177 mammal species had their numbers reduced by more than 80%.

Living area of ​​African tigers before and now.

5 genocides in Earth's history

End-Ordovician: 443 million years ago

This ice age caused the sea level to drop more seriously by more than 100 meters due to the formation of ice sheets, making 60-70% of the organisms, mainly living in the water during this period, extinct. After that, the breakup of the ice sheets began to form oxygen and the birth of new species.

Late Devonian: 360 million years ago

A series of climatic changes kill a lot of life in shallow seas. In fact, creatures of this period began to land and lived mainly in these shallow seas, so about 70% of the world's organisms were destroyed, including coral reefs, which were very popular. at that time.

Permian-Triassic: 250 million years ago

The eruption of Siberian volcanoes causes global warming, killing more than 95% of the world's creatures.

Triassic-Jurassic: 200 million years ago

¾ number of creatures were wiped out due to a series of eruptions and earthquakes, clearing the way for the formation of the dinosaur era.

Cretaceous-Tertiary: 65 million years ago

The cause is unknown but many hypotheses that an asteroid explosion occurred in Mexico today, along with a series of other volcanic eruptions that destroyed the dinosaurs and many other animals, clearing the way. for mammals, including humans that dominate the earth.