Here is the list of extinct animals from the government site, if you want to avoid CBS' advertisements and prompt to install an app. It includes one mammal (a bat), several birds, and the rest are...
Here is the list of extinct animals from the government site, if you want to avoid CBS' advertisements and prompt to install an app. It includes one mammal (a bat), several birds, and the rest are sea creatures; a third of them are from Hawaii.
Then there’s this paragraph, which seems like its own worthwhile article: “While some species are removed from the Endangered Species Act because they're considered extinct, others are delisted...
Then there’s this paragraph, which seems like its own worthwhile article:
“While some species are removed from the Endangered Species Act because they're considered extinct, others are delisted because their populations have rebounded. According to the agency, more than 100 species of plants and animals have been delisted based on recovery or reclassified from endangered to threatened based on improved conservation status.”
I feel kind of cynical about the list, at least the ones with last known sightings from quite a long time ago. Without any confidence in the validity of the observations, I sort of hope that those...
I feel kind of cynical about the list, at least the ones with last known sightings from quite a long time ago.
Without any confidence in the validity of the observations, I sort of hope that those species were just mislabelled adjacent species. So the impact of marking them extinct isn't a big deal to do today, since no one has seen one since 1950 anyway.
While in one sense you are correct that this specific act of editing a list is not in itself consequential, it’s also not a cause for celebration. If anything, this list grossly understates the...
While in one sense you are correct that this specific act of editing a list is not in itself consequential, it’s also not a cause for celebration. If anything, this list grossly understates the magnitude of the problem. Some estimates put the number of species going extinct as high as 3 per hour.
“We are indeed experiencing the greatest wave of extinctions since the disappearance of the dinosaurs,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, head of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. Dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago, perhaps after a meteorite struck.
“Extinction rates are rising by a factor of up to 1,000 above natural rates. Every hour, three species disappear. Every day, up to 150 species are lost. Every year, between 18,000 and 55,000 species become extinct,” he said.
Here is the list of extinct animals from the government site, if you want to avoid CBS' advertisements and prompt to install an app. It includes one mammal (a bat), several birds, and the rest are sea creatures; a third of them are from Hawaii.
Then there’s this paragraph, which seems like its own worthwhile article:
“While some species are removed from the Endangered Species Act because they're considered extinct, others are delisted because their populations have rebounded. According to the agency, more than 100 species of plants and animals have been delisted based on recovery or reclassified from endangered to threatened based on improved conservation status.”
Well that is a roller coaster of a headline.
I feel kind of cynical about the list, at least the ones with last known sightings from quite a long time ago.
Without any confidence in the validity of the observations, I sort of hope that those species were just mislabelled adjacent species. So the impact of marking them extinct isn't a big deal to do today, since no one has seen one since 1950 anyway.
While in one sense you are correct that this specific act of editing a list is not in itself consequential, it’s also not a cause for celebration. If anything, this list grossly understates the magnitude of the problem. Some estimates put the number of species going extinct as high as 3 per hour.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-extinctions-idUSL2253331920070522