Animals That Are In Danger Of Extinction 2019
This article also includes a list of species that went extinct in 2019 and 2018 and those that are on the verge of extinction in the coming years.
Animals that are in danger of extinction 2019. Aug 27 2019 topical. There were only about. Manatees are enormous slow moving creatures that frequent beachfront waters and streams. This is supported by a 2019 united nations report which said that hundreds of thousands of species of animals and plants are facing extinction because of human activity.
But both are on the brink of extinction due to poaching the pet trade ebola. Three bird species two frogs a shark a famous snail and one of the world s largest freshwater fish were among those declared extinct this year. This is a list of species that are critically endangered and close to extinction. We lost a lot of species in 2019.
Its population has diminished by more than 60 due to human invasion of its habitat and again. The creatures that went extinct or likely went extinct in 2019 include a snail rodent bird and rhino. There are two species of gorilla the eastern and western populations separated by thousands of miles. The year started with the extinction of a tiny hawaiian snail and ended with the loss of one of the world s largest freshwater fishes.
By julie gerstein and daisy hernandez. North atlantic right whale. Hunted especially for the properties of its horn used in traditional chinese medicine and as decoration. Manatee numbers declined all through the most recent century for the most part due to hunting by humans.
This makes them helpless against seekers of their shrouds oil and bones. These incredible animals will never roam earth again. Most of the animals shown here are among the more than 28 000 species of animals and plants that the international union for conservation of nature says are threatened with extinction.