3 ms·
Do you have a source for that fishy number?
by the-dude 6y ago
Do you have a source for that fishy number?
- Omnitaus 6y ago"Since 1900, 543 species of vertebrates have gone extinct. And those are just the ones we know of. In the past century, we have witnessed the disappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), the Round Island burrowing boa (Bolyeria multocarinata), the laughing owl (Ninox albifacies), the sea mink (Neovison macrodon), and the golden toad (Incilius periglenes), to name a few." https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/less-than-a-thousand-remain-new-list-of-animals-on-the-brink-of-extinction/ https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/less-than-a-thousand-remai...
- the-dude 6y ago@Omnitaus, you seem to be dead? Check the thread in incognito.
- ironmagma 6y ago“In the past decade, 467 species have been declared extinct (though they might have gone extinct in decades prior), according to the global authority on species conservation status, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN.” https://biobrief.org/species-the-world-lost-2010-2019/ https://biobrief.org/species-the-world-lost-2010-2019/