Stop weeping”
“Start caring”
“Prove this wrong”
“We’ve got 28 years”
“We can do this”
Imagine your child saying
“Mum whats a tiger?”
“Dad whats a elephant?”
Five mass extinctions have happened in Earth’s history, and numerous experts have warned that a sixth mass extinction could already be underway as a result of human activity since the Age of Exploration. Some scientists have even suggested that nearly 40% of the species currently residing on our planet could be extinct as early as 2050.
Many well-known species and subspecies — including the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus), black rhino (Diceros bicornis), hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Sunda tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) and Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) — are classified as “critically endangered,” meaning that they are at extremely high risk of extinction in the wild, according to both the IUCN and the World wide fund for nature.
Many of these species are so severely threatened that they may not make it to 2050. For example, a mere 70 Amur leopards remain in the wild, while the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), a species of porpoise thought to be the world’s rarest marine mammal, is down to only 10 individuals,
While extinctions occur naturally — more than 99% species to ever exist have already gone extinct.
Source live science
Imagine your child saying Mum whats a tiger? Dad whats a elephant?
