Big Animals Going Extinct
Unfortunately three macaw subspecies are in danger of extinction.
Big animals going extinct. Spixs macaw in green tree. Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to. The Chimps are also threatened to the point of extinction.
Megafauna are large animals such as elephant mammoth rhinocerous and Australias own diprotodon. The WWF says global animal populations have reduced by almost two-thirds since 1970. Captive breeding programs have rebounded their.
Macaws can be big or small but they comprise the worlds largest parrots. In 2019 the bird known as the Little Blue Macaw because of its vibrant blue feathers was declared extinct in the wild. They were 50 feet long weighed.
10 Recently Extinct Birds. The dodo was a flightless bird that was native to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Their greatest threats are habitat loss and diseases.
The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil. Also because they could take shelter in water these reptiles. Loss of habitat hunting and illegal trapping are causing these macaw varieties the Glaucous Little Blue and Idigo to disappear.
One out of four of the worlds mammals and over 40 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction due to human activity including habitat destruction overexploitation climate change and. 51 rows African forest elephant. Many endangered species are Arctic animals.