Extinct Animals In The World 2018
The Spixs macaw made famous by the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild 2018.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. Kihansi spray toad listed extinct in the wild since 2009 Northern white rhinoceros possibly extinct in the wild. In 1914 just 48 years later Martha the worlds last passenger pigeon was laid to rest. 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 also saw species that may go extinct at any moment. There are 19 animals on the World Wildlife Funds WWF critically endangered list including three species of rhino seven primates and four big cats. 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.
The plains bison Bison bison once numbered about 60 million heads. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times faster than the. 2018 was the year the eastern cougar was officially declared extinct likely 80 years after the last one was killed in Maine.
Extinct Animals In The World 2018. Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct. 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.
In the past centuries about 1000 species have become extinct. As no species had been seen from 1890 many people believed it was extinct but three species were captured from 1974 to 1975. In 2018 three bird species that were thought to have potentially gone extinct were deemed officially gone forever.
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. Ever wondered about the 10 oldest civilizations of the world. 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.