Extinct Animals In The World 2018
Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. The plains bison Bison bison once numbered about 60 million heads. Sudan the last male northern white rhino left in the world died. Due to deforestation and uncontrolled hunting in the next twenty years this species may no longer exist.
The West Virginian woodland bison Arizonas Merriams Elk the Rocky Mountain grasshopper Passenger pigeon and Puerto Ricos Culebra parrot are all animals of the past now. Rarest Animal in the World - Endangered Species 2018 Documentary - YouTube. Kihansi spray toad listed extinct in the wild since 2009 Northern white rhinoceros possibly extinct in the wild.
The Cryptic Treehunter Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner. In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct. In 1914 just 48 years later Martha the worlds last passenger pigeon was laid to rest.
Species extinction is a serious problem today and while the world is trying to prevent this from occurring we cant prevent it at the speed its happening. Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in the Sea of Cortez. Extinct Animals In The World 2018.
2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. Australias unique reptiles have been emphasised as particularly vulnerable with 7 per cent threatened with extinction. This species was wiped out in the wild because of deforestation and other factors such as the creation of a dam and trapping for wild trade.
Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters after millions of years of existence on Earth are gone for good.