Extinction Week Recap
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. As climates are transformed, habitats plundered, and nonnative fauna carried to virgin hunting grounds, extinction rates are increasing. We’ve lost perhaps 200 birds that we know of since 1500.
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