Birds Breeding Humane Syria 
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2016
Among the most critically endangered birds on the planet is the Northern Bald Ibis. A breeding program in Turkey has been successful, but civil war in neighboring Syria seems to have posed a significant hazard. For the past few years, many of the Ibises that migrated southward, across Syria, haven’t returned.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, experts have determined that the current rate of bird extinction is somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times the background rate. Globally, 1,313 bird species of a total of count of 10,064 are threatened, a frightening 13% of the total.
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