Thank goodness we have been able to pull buffalo from the brink of extinct to only near threatened.
So many animals get so close to us losing them forever but people work hard to make sure that doesn’t happen due to humans.
It’s one thing if they disappear on their own but the cause should never be human greed.
You should see the lists of animals that were classed as extinct or almost extinct and are now moving on to just vulnerable or threatened
@purplepumpkin Previous mass extinctions happened because of climate change, asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions or a combination of these causes. The one occurring now is due to human induced forces.
Have you ever heard of the passenger pigeon? The last one died in captivity, in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. There were once billions upon billions of them flying over North America. The birds flew at an estimated speed of about sixty miles an hour. Observers reported the sky was darkened by huge flocks that passed overhead. These flights often continued from morning until night and lasted for several days. Their winter roosts were so crowded that tree limbs would break under their weight. Then man came along and discovered they tasted good, and that, was that.
https://blog.history.in.gov/flocks-that-darken-the-heavens-the-passenger-pigeon-in-indiana/
They were stupid simple to catch. They often flew so low you could literally knock them out of the sky with an unaimed, thrown stick. The term stool pigeon comes from the fact that they'd tie one to something like a stool or chair and it's squacks would cause others to land nearby. Then they'd just throw nets and catch hundreds and hundreds at a time. Then, one day, they were gone.
But at the same time species disappearing is part of life on Earth.
So many animals get so close to us losing them forever but people work hard to make sure that doesn’t happen due to humans.
It’s one thing if they disappear on their own but the cause should never be human greed.
You should see the lists of animals that were classed as extinct or almost extinct and are now moving on to just vulnerable or threatened
Have you ever heard of the passenger pigeon? The last one died in captivity, in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. There were once billions upon billions of them flying over North America. The birds flew at an estimated speed of about sixty miles an hour. Observers reported the sky was darkened by huge flocks that passed overhead. These flights often continued from morning until night and lasted for several days. Their winter roosts were so crowded that tree limbs would break under their weight. Then man came along and discovered they tasted good, and that, was that.
https://blog.history.in.gov/flocks-that-darken-the-heavens-the-passenger-pigeon-in-indiana/