8 Bird Species Have Confirmed Extinct This Decade
The growing wave of extinctions sweeping across the globe is mainly due to habitat loss and degradation from unsustainable agriculture and logging. For example, in the Amazon, where many of these species were once in abundance, deforestation is a huge concern. The World Wildfire Fund has estimated that more than 17 million hectares of forest were lost between 2001 and 2012. This is something that cannot be ignored. If more than 40 percent of the region is deforested, the ecosystem
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