Extinct Animals In The World 2018
Sudan the last male northern white rhino left in the world died.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. 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. The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018. Extinct Animals In The World 2018.
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. When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals. 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.
2018 was the year the eastern cougar was officially declared extinct likely 80 years after the last one was killed in Maine. Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct. The Cryptic Treehunter Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner.
While the last remaining male died in 2018. Its frightening but true. 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.
Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day. Australias unique reptiles have been emphasised as particularly vulnerable with 7 per cent threatened with extinction. Of note is the vaquita the dolphin-like porpoise that lives in the Sea of Cortez.
Three bird species went extinct last year scientists said two of which are songbirds from northeastern Brazil. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. 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.