>>Of course habitat destruction is the real problem.

Another biggie is anthropogenic climate change.


>>But this is all based on the assumtion that Reptiles are in fact disapearing all over the globe. I don't think we can really determine that, other than habitat destruction.

Sure we can. Off the top of my head, here's something hot off the press. news.byu.edu/archive10-may-lizardextinction.aspx

>>Remember most snakes can double and triple clutch when conditions are optimum. Fluctuation is how nature works in almost every area. Cycles everything is cycles!

The problem is that nothing is presently cycling back up. It's all downward.

Scientists estimate, conservatively, that the modern extinction rate is 36 to 78 times the normal background rate of extinction. Check out Regan, H. M., R. Lupia, A. N. Drinnan, and M. A. Burgman. 2001. The currency and tempo of extinction. The American Naturalist 157:1-10. www.bio.sdsu.edu/pub/regan/Currencyandtempo.pdf. Reptiles are not excluded from the results of that data.

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