Extinct Animals In The World 2018
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.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. 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. Three bird species went extinct last year scientists said two of which are songbirds from northeastern Brazil. Extinct Animals In The World 2018.
The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018. The plains bison Bison bison once numbered about 60 million heads. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment.
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. Its frightening but true. In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct.
The United States holds the dubious record as the worlds worst offender. 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. While the last remaining male died in 2018.
Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times faster than the. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity.
There are 19 animals on the World Wildlife Funds WWF critically endangered list including three species of rhino seven primates and four big cats. 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.