Globally, BirdLife International estimates that 12 percent of known 9,865 bird species are now considered threatened, with 192 species, or 2 percent, facing an “extremely high risk” of extinction in .
Thousands of species could go extinct over the next decade according to a 2019 UN report. Biodiversity is decreasing at a faster rate than ever, BBC Reality Check investigates why. Produced by ...
River Dolphins: Multiple species, including Amazon and Ganges, are all facing extinction due to habitat loss, illegal ...
The illegal trafficking of wildlife through, to, and from Viet Nam is a long-standing issue, but impressive strides to curb ...
Climate change and invasive species are much lower contributors to the loss of trees, though these factors are also rooted in human activity. The number of trees facing extinction (over 17,000 ...
Everywhere we look, species are winking out. Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas Island pipistrelle and a rat, the Bramble Cay melomys.
A staggering 22% of migratory animals are facing potential extinction, while some 44% are experiencing notable population decline, according to a "State of the World's Migratory Species" report ...
As a result, many types of local trees have started disappearing and are facing extinction,” warned ... it is estimated that more than 700 species of non-native plants are planted across the ...
Scientists have identified three new species of giant kangaroo that lived from 5 million to 40,000 years ago, one of which is ...
The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms. Mammals, for instance, have an average species "lifespan" from origination to extinction of about 1 million years ...
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