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A global biodiversity tipping point as first marine fish extinction declared
- gully_boy 3y ago[dead]
- thfuran 3y ago>The Java Stingaree (Urolophus javanicus) was known only from a single specimen collected in 1862 from a fish market in Jakarta, Indonesia. >The team conducted new modeling encompassing all available information on the species which has revealed the Java Stingaree as extinct. [...] >CDU's Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Senior Research Fellow Dr. Peter Kyne said there are over 120 Critically Endangered marine fishes in the world and that the loss of the Java Stingaree is a tipping point for marine biodiversity. I'm no marine biologist, but this reads like a highly motivated conclusion.