The average initiate is in his late 40s, according to John Hamill, the lodge's head of communications, and, as recruitment falls and old members die off, the number of freemasons in Britain is shrinking.
"As more and more of these people die off and no longer perform, their history will be gone, " he says.
Without new conservation measures, there could be a massive die-off of Caribbean frogs within 15 years, warned Adrell Nunez, an amphibian expert with the Santo Domingo Zoo in the Dominican Republic.
We either take action to prevent further degeneration or large parts of the acquatic ecosystem will die off.
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Shortly after that, the poor kid was dragged off to a performance of "Die Fledermaus" by his parents, who must have been on more comfortable terms with comic opera than with child psychology.
And four other great die-offs have been identified - one of them killing off something like 90% of species.
The bit of PWC forcibly hived off might well wither and die quite quickly, or simply specialise in auditing smaller companies (where there is less of a competition problem, in any case).
Within a matter of minutes, the MRSA on the copper surface began to die off, whereas the population thrived on the stainless steel.
He says that it does appear the presence of IAPV is at least a sign that a beehive is likely to die off.
It releases a surge of warm water from the equator which kills off the plankton causing the fish which feed on them to die of starvation and driving the survivors south into Chilean waters.
There were so many in 2012 alone that the concept of it is beginning to become very stale, and if not managed properly could quickly die off in the years to come.
People on the wait list die (or, like Scott, get forced off, for various reasons) at the rate of 12, 000 a year.
It may just be that the virus turns up in bees that are sick for other reasons, or that it is one of many triggers, potentially including pesticides or other pathogens, that can cause a whole hive to die off.
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