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.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. The Cryptic Treehunter Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner. Three bird species went extinct last year scientists said two of which are songbirds from northeastern Brazil. The South China tiger which has not been seen in the wild for more than 25 years and is considered functionally extinct is top of the list.
There are 19 animals on the World Wildlife Funds WWF critically endangered list including three species of rhino seven primates and four big cats. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. While the last remaining male died in 2018.
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. When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals. 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.
Due to deforestation and uncontrolled hunting in the next twenty years this species may no longer exist. 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. Australias unique reptiles have been emphasised as particularly vulnerable with 7 per cent threatened with extinction.
As no species had been seen from 1890 many people believed it was extinct but three species were captured from 1974 to 1975. 2018 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times faster than the.
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. With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters after millions of years of existence on Earth are gone for good. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images.