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This category lists some of the species that have become extinct due to human activity, whether intentionally or unintentionally. If a more specific reason is known, the species should also be assigned to a subcategory of Category:Species by threat. They may also need to be placed in Category:Extinctions since 1500.
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
Homo (from Latin homÅ 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
Now in its 60th year, the list sounds the alarm about animals and plants at risk of extinction, but it also high List of threatened species grows by 1,000, but conservation efforts bring hope for ...
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The species include a fruit bat, two species of fish, eight types of mussels and 10 types of birds.
As the possibility of extinction became more widely established in the sciences, so did the prospect of human extinction. [4] In the 19th century, human extinction became a popular topic in science (e.g., Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population) and fiction (e.g., Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville's The Last Man).
The main goal of this project has always been to help the animals that are at a high risk of extinction currently Illustration of a dodo bird, symbolizing extinct species in mass extinction studies.