Psst! Love your tuna sashimi? Well, eat up because they may not be around much longer. The World Wildlife Fund has a dire report saying that unless current fishing practices are changed, tunas will be wiped out by 2012: The population can only be saved by a complete halt to fishing in May and June, [...]

Written by Bryan Nelson Published on April 2nd, 2009 Posted in About Animals, In Global // < ![CDATA[ <! if (document.referrer.indexOf("http://digg.com/") === 0) { jQuery('<div id="digg-related"></div>').insertBefore('.post > .entry'); digg_related({domain:"ecoworldly.com",container:"#digg-related",width:"",height:"",endPoint:"stories/upcoming"}); } // > // ]]> The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average, or background rate, making our current period [...]