Extinct Animals 2019 Philippines

Overfishing pollution loss of habitat.

Extinct animals 2019 philippines. Of these eight were mammals 32 birds six reptiles one amphibian and 13 invertebrates. As of 2019 the DENR recorded a total of 60 critically endangered species. Most plant and animal species last around 10 million years before disappearing.

The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil. It was declared extinct in the 1920s only to be spotted throughout the 1940s. Some lucky ones last much longer.

Among the critically endangered is the tamaraw Philippine spotted deer Visayan spotted deer dugong Visayan warty pig Philippine eagle Peregrine falcon Sulu hornbill Philippine cockatoo. These 5 endemic Philippine animals are facing extinction Published on January 10 2019 by Mikael Angelo Francisco In 2018 Spixs Macaw was officially declared extinct in the wild with three other species possibly extinct. Extinction is a natural phenomenon the result of failing to evolve fast enough to keep up with the times a cataclysm like an asteroid crash or human intervention.

The ivory-billed woodpecker is a bit specialit never officially went extinct. In 2019 the bird known as the Little Blue Macaw because of its vibrant blue feathers was declared extinct in the wild. 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.

In fact a number of resident species which are cultivated or hunted as food may be heading to extinction like the critically endangered tamaraw and the Visayan warty pig. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN Red List of Threatened Species the freshwater crocodile also known as the Mindoro crocodile is considered the most threatened among all Philippine reptiles. Photo lifted from One Kind Planet.

They were 50 feet long weighed. Fortunately experts have documented about 160 Spixs macaws in captivity. These helpless animals going extinct soon will completely go extinct until the end of 2020 if we dont take a firm step for their conservation.