A nest of a rare bird once thought extinct for 100 years has been found. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-and-elusive-australian-bird-once-thought-extinct-for-100-years-discovered-by-indigenous-rangers-and-scientists-180985143
Loss of oxygen in the ocean contributes to major losses to sea life. The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event (Great Dying) is considered the most calamitous event in Earth’s history. https://www.sciencealert.com/we-now-know-what-killed-the-sea-life-in-the-world-s-deadliest-mass-extinction
Five major extinction events have occurred on earth in the past 450 million years. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-earths-biggest-mass-extinctions-stack-up Be an earth steward.
Humans are contributing to the extinction of the world’s megafauna due to our need for meat. https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-are-quickly-eating-the-world-s-largest-animals-to-extinction It’s going to take all of us.
We are possibly living the sixth extinction. Elizabeth Kolbert explores this potention loss in her book ‘The Sixth Extinction’. She investigates the prior five extinctions and talks with world experts
The clouded leopard was last spotted in 2013, scientists thought after years long project to spot one failed. The clouded leopard is not an actual leopard, but has its own
Hawaii has the largest plant die off of any state since 1900. Three species of plants have died off each year-500 times faster than they would naturally. https://envirobites.org/2019/06/25/finally-a-global-documentation-of-plant-extinction-in-the-anthropocene/ It’s going
Western Black Rhinos extinct since 2003 It’s going to take all of us.
Nearly 600 plant species have gone extinct in the past 250 years. 571 extinct plant species is four times higher than the official listing kept by the International Union for the Conservation
