Dhaka, 3 April 2021: In 2019, the United Nations released a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), warning of an \u201cunprecedented\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d decline of nature as extinction rates skyrocketed for species around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In its report compiling information from 145 experts in 50 countries, IPBES warns, \u201cThe average abundance of native species in most major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20 percent, mostly since 1900. More than 40 percent of amphibian species, almost 33 percent of reef-forming corals, and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Earth is facing the \u201csixth mass extinction<\/a>\u201d as many scientists believe, then who is at fault? Why is this severe decline in biodiversity happening, and how can we stop it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of the threats facing endangered animals are caused by humans. In 2020, researchers sounded the alarm for more than 500 species of vertebrates \u201con the brink of extinction\u201d within the next 20 years. This extinction crisis is being driven first and foremost by human activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poaching, wildlife trafficking, and hunting all put animals at risk, but there is an even more daunting threat to endangered species that is being ignored: animal agriculture. Deforestation, habitat loss, overfishing, global warming, and other issues linked to animal farming are putting wild species in danger of collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As industrial animal farming continues to encroach on the natural world, more and more species are being put in harm\u2019s way. Below is a list of some of the animals currently facing extinction and how humans, and more specifically animal agriculture, are involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The primary threat to the critically endangered saola, discovered not long ago in 1992, is hunting, according to IUCN<\/a>, which called the mammal especially vulnerable to hunting with dogs. In 2009, the IUCN reported that experts believe the \u201csaola cannot be saved without intensified removal of poachers\u2019 snares and reduction of hunting with dogs in key areas of the Annamite forests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most endangered species of whale in the world, with fewer than 400 individuals remain, the North Atlantic Right Whale faces many dangers including high levels of ocean noise and warmer water, but \u201centanglement in fishing gear and vessel strikes are the leading causes of North Atlantic right whale mortality,\u201d writes<\/a> the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA estimates that over 85 percent of right whales have experienced being entangled in fishing gear at least once in their lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This species was once nearly wiped out by whaling. In fact, the right whale got its name because it was viewed as the \u201cright whale\u201d to hunt<\/a>, being a slow swimmer and floating to the surface when killed. Today, the fishing and shipping industries are the North Atlantic Right Whale\u2019s deadliest threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The gharial crocodile is \u201cone of the world\u2019s most endangered reptiles,\u201d reports<\/a> BBC, \u201cclinging to survival in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.\u201d Among the threats pushing the gharial to the brink are agriculture and aquaculture, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFarming and agriculture, mining, pollution, and general disturbances have all contributed towards the radical decline in Gharial numbers. Even livestock have contributed towards their decline as livestock such as water buffalo and cattle have destroyed and damaged riverbanks, sandbanks, and gharial nests by simply grazing,\u201d writes<\/a> EndangeredList.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The critically endangered kakapo parrot is unique among most of the species listed here because its threats are not deforestation or hunting by humans\u2014yet sadly, only an estimated 116 of these birds are believed to remain. According to IUCN<\/a>, the kakapo\u2019s main threats are invasive species, genes, and diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) calls<\/a> the situation faced by the critically endangered Amur leopard \u201ccritical,\u201d due to \u201cextensive habitat loss and conflict with humans.\u201d One of the drivers of habitat loss is the conversion of land for farming. Agriculture indirectly impacts the fate of this leopard, too, the WWF points out<\/a>. \u201cAgriculture and villages surround the forests where the leopards live. As a result, the forests are relatively accessible, making poaching a bigger problem than elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The world\u2019s most endangered ocean mammal, the vaquita porpoise, is quickly vanishing and its decline is due to illegal fishing gear used to catch another critically endangered animal: the totoaba fish. World Animal Protection writes, \u201cThe vaquita\u2019s proximity to extinction is due to illegal fishing activity and the resulting abandoned gillnets, known as ghost nets. 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Animals That Are Going Extinct<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Saola<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
North Atlantic Right Whale<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Gharial<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Kakapo<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Amur Leopard<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Vaquita<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n