Ούτε ένα, ούτε δύο αλλά σχεδόν πενήντα είναι τα είδη ζώων που εξαφανίστηκαν από το 1900 έως το 2014, κυρίως από τις συνέπειες που έχει προκαλέσει η ανθρώπινη δραστηριότητα στον πλανήτη.
Παρακάτω θα δείτε τη λίστα των ειδών αυτών, καθώς και ένα θλιβερό βίντεο με σπάνια πλάνα από αυτά:
Η λίστα των εξαφανισμένων ειδών ζώων:
1901 – Pig-footed bandicoot
1902 – Rocky Mountain locust
1905 – Honshu wolf
1909 – Tarpan
1910 – Usambara annone (tree)
1911 – Newfoundland wolf
1914 – Passenger pigeon
1918 – Carolina parakeet
1924 – California grizzly bear
1925 – Kenai Peninsula wolf
1930 – Darwin’s rice rat
1932 – Heath hen
1933 – Cry pansy (plant)
1934 – Indefatigable Galapagos mouse
1935 – Desert rat-kangaroo
1935 – Mogollon mountain wolf, Southern Rocky Mountains wolf
1936 – Thylacine
1937 – Bali tiger
1938 – Radula visiniaca (a species of liverwort)
1939 – Toolache wallaby
1940 – Cascade mountain wolf
1942 – Texas wolf
1942 – Barbary lion
1952 – Caribbean monk seal
1952 – Bernard’s wolf
1956 – Crescent nail-tail wallaby
1962 – Red-bellied gracile opossum
1965 – Turgid-blossom pearly mussel
1966 – Arabian ostrich
1969 – Mexican grizzly bear
1970 – Caspian tiger
1972 – Mason River myrtle (plant)
1974 – Japanese sea lion
1979 – Javan tiger
1981 – Green-blossom pearlymussel
1985 – Platypus frog
1989 – Golden toad, Atitlán grebe
1990 – Dusky seaside sparrow
1994 – Saint Croix racer, Levuana moth
1997 – Hainan ormosia (a species of legume)
2000 – Pyrenean ibex
2006 – Baiji dolphin
2008 – Liverpool pigeon
2010 – Alaotra grebe
2011 – Eastern cougar
2011 – Western black rhinoceros
2012 – Japanese river otter, Pinta Island tortoise
2013 – Cape Verde giant skink, Formosan clouded leopard, Scioto madtom
2014 – Acalypha wilderi (a species of spurge), Bermuda saw-whet owl
