Down to the Route of Extinction..

Towards the end of the blog, I would just like to mention some animals that are presumably extinct and perhaps critically endangered in the last decade.. 

Apart from Yangtze River dolphin that I previously mentioned, there are many other precious species slipped past us in the past decade. 

Mother Nature Network summarised 10 of them, some might sound familiar: 

Spix's macaws - Last known bird in the wild disappeared in 2000 due to hunting and trapping, destruction and the introduction of Africanized bees

West African black rhinoceros - Only around 10 rhinos left in 2000 due to poaching 

Golden toad - Species declared extinct in August 2007, airborne pollution and global warming are the main cause of extinction 

Apart from the Mother Nature Network, the powerful magazine TIME (click the link for the photos!) also identified 10 species near extinction..  

Bear in mind that, these just constitute the tip of the iceberg of endangered/extinct species.

As we can see, our development has led to the verge of extinction of many species. Ironically, humans have at the same time, attempted to preserve endangered species in different ways. Some of these methods are odd to say the least - spraying perfumes to spice up love lives of Sumatran tigers, cloning extinct species like Pyrenean ibex and freezing DNA of endangered species. Yet, it is still uncertain, almost unlikely, that these human efforts are sufficient to prevent the Sixth Extinction if it is approaching..