Extinct Animals In The World 2018
2018 was the year the eastern cougar was officially declared extinct likely 80 years after the last one was killed in Maine.
Extinct animals in the world 2018. Patrick Pleulpicture alliance via Getty Images. In 2018 three bird species that were thought to have potentially gone extinct were deemed officially gone forever. Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years.
Extinct Animals In The World 2018. Northern white rhinos inhabited parts of Central African Republic Chad the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sudan and Uganda and are a subspecies of white rhinoceros. Sudan the last male northern white rhino left in the world died.
As no species had been seen from 1890 many people believed it was extinct but three species were captured from 1974 to 1975. 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. When the last male died there in 2018 the scientific community deemed them recently extinct animals.
The Cryptic Treehunter Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner. Around 100 birds still exist in captivity. Theres little question that humanitys continued exploitation of wild animals and the depletion of their habitats have left many species either clinging to existence or at worst extinct.
Due to excessive commercial hunting one of the planets most common birds was declared extinct. Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day. There are 19 animals on the World Wildlife Funds WWF critically endangered list including three species of rhino seven primates and four big cats.
Rarest Animal in the World - Endangered Species 2018 Documentary - YouTube. While the last remaining male died in 2018. 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.