Welcome to my blog.
All tagged extinction
The smallest, and probably the rarest, rabbit in the world is on its last legs in the Pacific Northwest. The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit thrived for thousands of years in the sagebrush steppe of what is now central Washington, but massive habitat loss has pushed the species to the brink of extinction.
The IUCN’s announcement last month that the Chinese paddlefish is officially extinct was really a formality. This species of sturgeon, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, checked out sometime between 2005 and 2010. It was already considered “functionally extinct” in 1993 when a tiny remaining population could no longer sustain itself.
