Introduced predators kill about 25 million native birds in New Zealand annually, with about 4,000 native species threatened or at risk of extinction.
CNN
Mostly found in South America's high elevation humid forests including Peru and Bolivia, Andean Bears are unfortunately at risk of extinction and listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, with potentially as few as 2,500 mature individuals remaining.
Manchester Evening News
The establishment of effectively managed no-take marine protected areas is critical for meeting global goals to reduce extinction risk, especially given the contribution of fishing activities to the total marine STAR T score.
Nature
Andean Bears - also known as Spectacled Bears due to their light brown facial markings - are unfortunately at risk of extinction and listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, with potentially as few as 2,500 mature individuals remaining.
St Helens Star
Nearly one-third of the world's amphibians are threatened, with 200 species already extinct and hundreds more teetering on the brink of extinction due to habitat degradation, pollution, and climate change.
Nature Connect
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war, are odd words from hard-charging tech execs competing to get obviously flawed generative AI applications in the hands of the public.
Computerworld
Bird extinction rate over the next 100 years has been predicted to reach 6.98 × 10-4 / species / year, a rate that is unprecedented for birds.
Nature
74 fish species in the Mekong are assessed as at risk of extinction, with 18 species now classified as critically endangered.
World Wildlife Fund
Delegates are convening in the Kenyan capital as climate change intensifies, a million species face the risk of extinction, and pollution remains among the world's leading causes of premature death.
UN News
Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study has shown.
ScienceDaily
More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 migratory species monitored by the U.N. - whales, sea turtles, apes, songbirds and others - are threatened with extinction.
NPR
Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, and Atlantic salmon are now classified as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list.
The Guardian
97% of fishes listed under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) are threatened with extinction.
phys.org
The global increase in extinction and extinction risk is contributing to the decline of genetic diversity.
Convention on Biological Diversity
Last May, hundreds of leading figures in AI research and development signed a one-sentence statement declaring that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
25% of the world's freshwater fish species are at risk of extinction, and a third of them are threatened by invasive species and diseases.
Mongabay Environmental News
Anthropogenic climate change is a major threat to global biodiversity, with the potential to lead to the extinction of many thousands of species and the loss of local populations and reduction in abundance of many more.
Nature
Florida loosestrife is not in danger of extinction now, or within the foreseeable future throughout all of its range.
Federal Register
Overall wildlife continued to decline, with one in six species at risk of extinction - and that wildlife was being challenged in new ways by global heating, disease and other destructive human activities.
The Guardian
Nearly all threats to native species that might cause the global extinction of entire native species are caused by just a handful of invaders (such as predatory mammals on oceanic islands).
Workers' Liberty
Invasive species, often transported by human activity, are thought to be playing a major role in global extinction rates and the catastrophic declines of biodiversity threatening the well-being of people and planet.
The Hindu
Last updated: 21 April 2024
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