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.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. Its frightening but true. Todays extinctions are happening 100 to 1000 times faster than the. 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.
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. In 1914 just 48 years later Martha the worlds last passenger pigeon was laid to rest. 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.
The Sumatran elephant is on the verge of extinction and is considered one of the most endangered species in the entire animal kingdom. The Cryptic Treehunter Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner. Sudan the last male northern white rhino left in the world died.
The United States holds the dubious record as the worlds worst offender. Guam kingfisher listed extinct in the wild since 1986 Hawaiian crow or ʻalalā last seen in 2002 listed as extinct in the wild since 2004 Small groups have since been released in 2017 and 2018. An additional species of bird that reached the verge of extinction in 2018 is the Spixs macaw which was declared extinct in the wild and now only a few captive Spixs macaws are alive.
2018 was the year the eastern cougar was officially declared extinct likely 80 years after the last one was killed in Maine. 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.
Three bird species went extinct last year scientists said two of which are songbirds from northeastern Brazil. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. Due to deforestation and uncontrolled hunting in the next twenty years this species may no longer exist.