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These Animals Are About to Disappear From the Planet Forever
Earth is currently experiencing the worst wave of species die-offs — a mass extinction of plants and animals — since the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. Scientists say that nearly all of the thousands of currently threatened species — mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, plants and invertebrates — are at risk because of human activities, including habitat loss, introduction of non-natives, and the effects of climate change.
Pere David’s Deer
Elaphurus davidianus
Status: Extinct in the Wild
Population: about 600
This semi-aquatic deer of China vanished around 1939 when the last wild one was shot and killed. The Pere David’s Deer has been recovered from the edge of extinction after being reintroduced into captivity in China, according to the IUCN red list. There are now four wild populations being established by escapees from a Nature Reserve during severe flooding in 1998, according to IUCN.
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Oryx dammah
Status: Extinct in the Wild
The myth of the one-horned unicorn may have originated from this antelope, which was once widespread across northern Africa and was domesticated in ancient Egypt. Overhunting and habitat loss, including competition with domestic livestock, are the main reasons for the extinction of the wild population, according to the IUCN Red list.
Guam kingfisher
Todiramphus cinnamominus
Population: about 146
Status: Extinct in the Wild
The Guam kingfisher is a species of kingfisher from the U.S. territory. The wild population was killed off by the non-native brown tree snake. It exists only in captivity. The male pictured here is at the Bronx Zoo.Alagoas Curassow
Mitu mitu
Population: about 130
Status: Extinct in the Wild
Clearance of the lowland forests of Brazil for sugarcane, as well as poaching, have brought this glossy-black, pheasant-like bird to the edge of extinction. While the bird exists in captive breeding programs, much of its wild habitat has been destroyed.
Guam Rail
Hypotaenidia owstoni
Population: about 150
Status: Extinct in the Wild
The last individual in the wild of this flightless but fast-running bird died in 1987, killed by the brown tree snake. Captive breeding programs in Guam and the U.S. may restore the population. Pictured is a Guam Rail at the Cincinnati Zoo.
South China Tiger
Panthera tigris amoyensis
Status: Critically Endangered (possibly Extinct in the Wild)
Population: 30-80
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the South China tiger population was about 4,000 in the early 1950s. In the next few decades, thousands were killed, hunted as a pest. Though the Chinese government banned hunting in 1979, by 1996 the population was estimated to be just 30-80 of these tigers. Today the big cat is considered to be “functionally extinct,” as it has not been seen in the wild for more than 25 years.
Amur Leopard
Panthera pardus orientalis
Status: Critically Endangered
Population: More than 84
A rare subspecies of leopard of the Russian Far East, the Amur leopard can run at speeds of up to 37 mph. It is frequently killed by poachers for its beautiful, spotted fur, according to WWF.
Black Rhino
Diceros bicornis
Status: Critically Endangered
Population: 5,000 – 5,400
Killed in large numbers by European hunters and settlers, today rhinos are an important source of income from ecotourism in places like Namibia. World Wildlife Fund says this species has made a strong comeback from the brink of extinction, but poaching and black-market trafficking of rhino horn continues to threaten recovery. Pictured is a black rhinoceros in Kruger national park, South Africa.
Orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
Status: Critically Endangered
Population: About 104,700
Sumatran Orangutan
Pongo abelii
Status: Critically Endangered
Population: 14,613
Highly intelligent, Orangutans share 96.4% of genes with humans. Female Orangutans are hunted most, and if caught with offspring, the young are often kept as pets.
Sumatran Orangutans live in the trees of tropical rainforests, and rarely travel on the ground.
Cross River Gorilla
Gorilla gorilla diehli
Status: Critically Endangered
Population: 200 to 300 individuals
Cross River gorillas live in a region populated by many humans in Cameroon and Nigeria. As humans clear forests for timber, agriculture and livestock, the gorillas continue to lose habitat. They are also poached by hunters.
Disappear-Daily prompt
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There was a place I went to frequently, back in my younger years. It was a place I felt I could sneak to and where I could DISAPPEAR. This place was a secret, no one knew about. I went there on days when I was feeling “blue”. Often times it was a place that I could hide and cry if I needed to. I was amongst my dolls and things, a place I felt that I was meant for me. This place was my closet.
My closet has louver doors, that opened and closed with wheels at the bottom that followed a grid, much like an accordion. There were 2 sets. I loved them because they slid and because while inside the closet you could peer out through the cracks in the louvered doors. They were painted white on the outside, as well as on the inside. I guess the only thing that was wrong with those doors was if you accidentally pinched the skin on your fingers or hands trying to use them. This happened quite a few times to my recollection.
My closet was filled with my clothes, toys, and dolls, not to mention book bags, and forgotten items. I fixed my closet so that I could go inside and stay for a spell depending on my reasons, which were usually to DISAPPEAR. See, anytime my parents were upset with me, or I was in trouble, I found myself longing to be inside my closet and hidden away from all the things that upset me. Often times I ran to my closet because I was wanting to be safe, safe from situations that made me uncomfortable and seemed to diminished my smile.
For a kid this was a great place to go to. A place surrounded by their favorite things and yet hidden away from the turmoil outside in the real world. I loved my closet, it saved my spirit on many an occasion. I often feel myself wanting to gravitate to a closet similar in nature, on certain occasions, still today. Oh, if things were that simple again! Now, I cannot disappear when I feel sad or upset, but once it was what “saved me’.
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