One-fifth of bird species may disappear from Earth
Nearly two thousand out of the ten thousand of bird species exist on Earth have been threatened by extinction – scientists announced this year.
This year another bird species, the Alaotra Grebe extincted from Earth, BirdLife International reported. This unique bird species lived on the Eastern coasts of Madagascar and its extinction was caused by some kind of fishes but many of them ended up in the fishermen’s nets too, reporters say.
The last certainly indenfitied Alaotra Grebe was seen in 1985, since then only a few hybridized species were observed. Experts couldn’t be sure about the extinction of the species till 2009, though the last major attempt to find the species brought no results. Alaotra Grebe is the 132nd extincted bird species in the world.
The latest Red list says that more than 2000 bird species are endangered out of the 10027. Four species are already disappeared from the wild and living in captivity, 190 of them are on the edge of extinction, 372 are endangered, 678 are vulnerable and 838 are threatened.
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