Big Animals Going Extinct
Humans have eliminated most large animals from the world over the last 125000 years according to a study by the University of New Mexico.
Big animals going extinct. 10 Recently Extinct Birds. The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil. The life for the dodo came to an abrupt end in the 1600s when European explorers landed on Mauritius and the Dutch sailors ate the beast to extinction.
The dodo was a large and heavy bird that had wings but was unable to swim or fly. Peruvian Black Spider Monkey. But the oryx was kept as livestock leaving some individuals there.
Unfortunately three macaw subspecies are in danger of extinction. This article lists the top 50 critically endangered animals in the philippines. Captive breeding programs have rebounded their.
The WWF says global animal populations have reduced by almost two-thirds since 1970. Megafauna are large animals such as elephant mammoth rhinocerous and Australias own diprotodon. 10 extinct animals of the last 100 years.
That means that we are increasingly destroying the places they live. One out of four of the worlds mammals and over 40 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction due to human activity including habitat destruction overexploitation climate change and. Extinct Animals 1.
Information adapted from. The oryx is prized for its long antler. Loss of habitat hunting and illegal trapping are causing these macaw varieties the Glaucous Little Blue and Idigo to disappear.