how many animals have gone extinct in the last 10 years?
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Animal and plant species declared extinct between 2010 and 2019, the full list. The disappearance of 160 species has been declared by the IUCN over the last decade: most had been gone for a long time and their demise can be traced in large part to human impact. The full list of extinct species.
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According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 784 extinctions have been recorded since the year 1500, the arbitrary date selected to define "recent" extinctions, up to the year 2004; with many more likely to have gone unnoticed. Several species have also been listed as extinct since 2004.
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As of July 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 33 extinct in the wild animal species. Approximately 0.05% of all evaluated animal species are listed as extinct in the wild.
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Extinction is a natural process. Scientists estimate that up to 98% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct. Most of these became extinct before the arrival of humans over a period of hundreds of millions of years.
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An international team of researchers led by the National Autonomous University (UNAM) has found that since the year 1900, about 477 different species have become extinct because of continued human degradation and destruction of natural habitats.
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In June 2019, one million species of plants and animals were at risk of extinction. At least 571 species are lost since 1750 but likely many more. The main cause of the extinctions is the destruction of natural habitats by human activities, such as cutting down forests and converting land into fields for farming.
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1 million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction, U.N. report warns. People are putting nature in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with the risk of extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday.
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Scientists estimate that 100 to 10,000 species — from microscopic organisms to large plants and animals — go extinct each year. This is 100 to 1,000 times faster than historic extinction rates.
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['Baiji dolphin. Year declared extinct: 2007. ... ', "Thylacine, also known as 'Tasmanian wolf' or 'Tasmanian tiger' Year declared extinct: 1986. ... ", 'Pinta tortoise. Year declared extinct: 2012. ... ', 'Golden toad. Year declared extinct: 1989. ... ', 'Caribbean monk seal. Year declared extinct: 2008. ... ', 'Caspian tiger. ... ', 'Formosan clouded leopard. ... ', 'Pyrenean ibex.']
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From snails to whales, approximately 2,270 species are listed as endangered or threatened globally under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Of the species that are listed, approximately 150 of them live in the ocean in U.S. waters, and some are considered closer to extinction than others.
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['Elephants - 352,000. Elephants in the wild have been poached for their ivory tusksCredit: IFAW. ... ', 'Rhinos - 30,000. Experts are concerned rhinos could be extinct by 2025Credit: Getty - Contributor. ... ', 'Tigers - 3,890. ... ', 'Mountain gorillas - 880. ... ', 'Lemurs - 2,400. ... ', 'Pangolin - unknown. ... ', 'Snow leopard - 4,000. ... ', 'African grey parrot - unknown.']
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In the past 500 years, we know of approximately 1,000 species that have gone extinct, from the woodland bison of West Virginia and Arizona's Merriam's elk to the Rocky Mountain grasshopper, passenger pigeon and Puerto Rico's Culebra parrot — but this doesn't account for thousands of species that disappeared before ...
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Approximately 30,000 species per year — about three per hour — are being driven to extinction. Approximately 80 percent of the decline in global biological diversity is caused by habitat destruction.
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Frog Mass Extinction on the Horizon. The world has lost at least 200 frog species since the 1970s, and hundreds more will face extinction in the coming decades, according to new research published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Today, the rate of extinction is occurring 1,000 to 10,000 times faster because of human activity. The main modern causes of extinction are the loss and degradation of habitat (mainly deforestation), over exploitation (hunting, overfishing), invasive species, climate change, and nitrogen pollution.
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Since the start of the century, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared 665 species either completely extinct or extinct in the wild. Here are four forest-dependent species that have vanished due to habitat loss in the last 20 years.
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These experts calculate that between 0.01 and 0.1% of all species will become extinct each year. If the low estimate of the number of species out there is true - i.e. that there are around 2 million different species on our planet** - then that means between 200 and 2,000 extinctions occur every year.