Extinct Animals In The World 2018
Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times faster than the.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. There are 19 animals on the World Wildlife Funds WWF critically endangered list including three species of rhino seven primates and four big cats. While the last remaining male died in 2018. In 2018 three bird species that were thought to have potentially gone extinct were deemed officially gone forever.
Due to deforestation and uncontrolled hunting in the next twenty years this species may no longer exist. The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018. As no species had been seen from 1890 many people believed it was extinct but three species were captured from 1974 to 1975.
Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in the Sea of Cortez. 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. 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.
In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct. Australias unique reptiles have been emphasised as particularly vulnerable with 7 per cent threatened with extinction. In 1914 just 48 years later Martha the worlds last passenger pigeon was laid to rest.
One of the most famous birds to be declared extinct in 2018 was the Spixs Macaw a blue parrot found in Brazil that shot to fame after the release of Rio in 2011. The organization BirdLife International determined that the Hawaiian poʻouli and two Brazilian songbirds the Cryptic Treehunter and the Alagoas Foliage-gleaner are all extinct as of this year. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity.
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. Northern white rhinos inhabited parts of Central African Republic Chad the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan and Uganda and are a subspecies of white rhinoceros. Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct.