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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max (2021-04-15). "Habitat loss". Our World in Data.

Comment: This is a great series of articles and data visualisations analysing on human impacts on extinciton and habitats throughout the Holocene

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This article was nominated for merging with Quaternary extinction on 24-08-21. The result of the discussion was Not merged.

Section sizes

Section size for Holocene extinction (37 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	27,614	27,614
Background	2,682	2,682
Overview	4,442	51,008
Extinction rate	19,672	19,672
Attribution	1,666	1,666
Scientific debate	13,946	13,946
Anthropocene	9,054	9,054
Human ecology	2,228	2,228
Historic extinction	134	15,824
Human activity	21	10,603
Activities contributing to extinctions	6,422	6,422
Agriculture and climate change	4,160	4,160
Climate change	5,087	5,087
Contemporary extinction	91	79,389
History	32,590	32,590
Recent extinction	7,185	7,185
Habitat destruction	15,101	15,101
Climate change	4,959	4,959
Overexploitation	12,635	12,635
Disease	6,828	6,828
By region	1,234	61,937
Africa	820	820
Eurasia	5,186	5,186
Americas	9,292	9,292
New Guinea	857	857
Australia	5,690	5,690
Caribbean	1,679	1,679
Macaronesia	10,983	10,983
Pacific	13,789	13,789
Madagascar	7,036	7,036
New Zealand	5,371	5,371
Mitigation	21,187	21,187
See also	620	620
Notes	24	24
References	33	33
Further reading	6,128	6,128
External links	4,816	4,816
Total	271,262	271,262

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