Remembering those Animals that are now extinct!
As the year is about to end l though what would be an Ideal topic? And l was like go figure let’s actually show people that we are just not ranting about stuff. That’ the damage is real, we really need to save our planet. People are ignorant or they just decide that some of these things don’t actually affect them. Well do l decided to an a few Animals or Birds that once were and that is where all endangered species are herding towards. …. please read on…
of course k cannot name all them but will talk about 5 at least but here is a list you can verify later….. Tasmanian Tiger, Steller’s sea cow, Pyrenaian ibex, baiji dolphin, passenger pigeon, Caribbean Monk Seal, Great Soul, Dodo, Quagga, Golden Toad, Wooly mammoth, Irish elk only to mention but a few!
As aforementioned these animals or birds have gone extinct in the last 100 years so what will be the next 100 years be like? Climate Change,habitat loss, and human activities are some of the factors that have led to the mass extinction of many animal species. And if no hasty actions are taken, future generations may never see some of the species we get to see now. For example think about the black rhino is killed every 16 Hours and there are only 6 847 left so bu the next 100 years they will definitely be extinct
First up is the Japanese Sea lion which you can only Google and view in textbooks. This aquatic mammal becam extinct in the 1970s. it is thought to have belonged the same family of the California Sea lion. The reason for its extinction is that Japanese trawlers harvested as many as 16 500 which could be be the main reason for their extinctionAnothehr reason was the loss of their habitat during Word WAr 2 duie to the submasrine war
yellow-breasted songbird that used to live in the southeastern US and Cuba, was declared endangered in 1967 and the last unconfirmed sighting was in Florida in 1977. Deforestation, land-clearing, and hurricanes may have wiped out Bachman’s warbler, which was once the rarest songbird in the US, for good.
In their heyday, Tasmanian tigers were the world’s largest marsupials. Tasmanian tigers were the largest marsupial predators before they became extinct. Like dingo dogs, Tasmanian tigers ranged in length from 39 to 51 inches. That’s about the size of a medium-sized doGovernment bounties in the 19th and early 20th centuries made hunting Tasmanian tigers all the more appealing. Eventually, this systematic slaying decimated the species, and as a result, the thylacine has been presumed extinct for the last 87 years.
Atlas Bear
This bear was from North Africa and the only bear in Africa! They were said to be herbivorous. They became extinct because thousands were hunted for sport from the time of the Roman Empire in Africa (starting 146 BCE) onwards. The uni last known specimen was probably killed by hunters in the 1870s in the Tétouan Mountains in the far north of the Rif mountains of Morocco according to the Bear conservation trust
The yellow-breasted songbird that used to live in the southeastern US and Cuba, was declared endangered in 1967 and the last unconfirmed sighting was in Florida in 1977. Deforestation, land-clearing, and hurricanes may have wiped out Bachman’s warbler, which was once the rarest songbird in the US, for good. Ur had previously been named endangered in 1967.Bachman’s Warblers is possibly extinct, and was most likely never common. The last confirmed sightings were in 1988 and before that in 1961 in South Carolina according to the earthlife website https://earthlife.net/bachmans-warblers/
The bird was endemic to the Hawaiian islands and unfortunately it got extinct due to loss of habitat amongst other issues. No recording of the bird since 1981;
Baiji Dolphin
It’s said to be a possiblr extinct species of freshwater dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China. It is thought to be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans. This dolphin is listed as “critically endangered: possibly extinct” by the IUCN, has not been seen in 40 years, and several surveys of the Yangtze have failed to find it. In China, the species is also called the Chinese river dolphin, Han river dolphin, Yangtze dolphin and whitefin dolphin. Since 2022 it has been Twenty years before any reports on the sightings of these dolphins. Before 1900, there was a The primary factor driving this decline was probably unsustainable bycatch in local fisheries, particularly rolling hook long-lines, together with wider-scale habitat degradation and pollution. Early on in the industrialisation process baijis were hunted for meat, oil and leather.population around 3,000 to 5,000 individuals. Now there may be less than 10 and possibly extinct.
Well that’s it from me find out more and share do we know that the repercussions of climate change and our everyday actions are real.
See you next year