Almost Extinct Animals 2019
Saving one species saves many more.
Almost extinct animals 2019. While the 2019 update does further cement how great a crisis we are facing it also has a tinge of hope. According to the WWF this Asian tiger species is almost extinct. We lost a lot of species in 2019.
Three bird species two frogs a shark a famous snail and one of the worlds largest freshwater fish were among those declared extinct this year. 51 rows African forest elephant. These extinctions have occurred since European settlement.
The Amur leopard and Sumatran elephant are just two of 19 species categorized as critically endangered by the World Wildlife Fund while the white-rumped vulture Philippine crocodile and Chinese pangolin have been given the equivalent classification on the IUCN Red List. Consequently what animals are almost extinct 2019. Originally this species could be found in parts of China.
Only 540 Amur tigers are left in the wild. In the 1940s their populations were nearly extinct due to hunting and poaching threats. Sudan the last remaining male northern white rhino died at the age of 45 in March 2018.
The 2019 updates note that 10 species are recovering. After he passed the total number remaining northern white rhinos dropped to just two. The creatures that went extinct or likely went extinct in 2019 include a snail rodent bird and rhino.
Only 60 years ago we could still find quolls around Melbourne. Most notably Key deer found only in the Florida Keys were almost completely eradicated by the mid-1900s. The year started with the extinction of a tiny Hawaiian snail and ended with the.