What has died almost too much to count scientist estimate we’ve lost 30,000 species i. The last year but because the earth is home to far more species than we identified there are surely many species going #extinct #unnoticed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe. The #biosphere is fully integrated & inter-dependent. Take out one part of an #ecosystem & the rest of it collapses - & the same is true of the biosphere as a whole. If all #fungi were to become #extinct, the #extinction of other #eukaryotic life-forms, including #humans, would follow, & very rapidly.
African scientists hail mushrooming global interest in conserving fungi

Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, mycologists seek greater recognition of the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna

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Majestic #leopards are adaptable and a range over several continents, yet they're #extinct in places due to #palmoil #deforestation, #poaching and other threats. Help them every time you shop and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫#Boycott4Wildlife @[email protected] wp.me/pcFhgU-199

Leopard Panthera pardus
Majestic #leopards are adaptable and a range over several continents, yet they’re #extinct in places due to #palmoil #deforestation, #poaching and other threats. Help them every time you shop and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/pcFhgU-199?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Once believed #extinct, the enigmatic #BushDog 🐕🐺 is now ‘Near Threatened’ from #palmoil 🌴🔥 and #soy 🥜🔥 #deforestation in #SouthAmerica. Masterful hunters they rely on prey that is disappearing. Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴☠️⛔ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/pcFhgU-73d?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Toucans reintroduced 50 years ago disperse seeds of endangered trees in Brazil

More than 50 years ago, the ariel toucan was reintroduced to Tijuca National Park, the world’s largest urban forest, located in Rio de Janeiro in southeastern Brazil. Now, a new study finds that the bird, which became locally extinct in the 1960s, has almost entirely settled back into its original role in the ecosystem, serving […]

Conservation news
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NEW VIDEO: Languages are dying. species are going #extinct. Our world's #diversity is withering away. But why should anyone care anyway? Why should diversity be treated as a value in itself?

https://youtu.be/Mx6VhWcUjCY

Why Should We Care About Diversity?

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Once thought to be extinct, ancient cloud sponge seen in B.C. waters
Ancient cloud sponges were once thought to be extinct, but Ryan Swan from Be Sea Adventure captured them on video and shared the rare footage on his YouTube channel.
#Environment #Ancientseasponge #CloudSponge #seasponge
https://globalnews.ca/news/11758667/ancient-cloud-sponge-bc-waters/

How Do We Know A Species Is Really Extinct?

"When the only image available of your species is a painting, that’s a really big clue that it’s extinct"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#Extinct #EndangeredSpecies #WarOnWildlife #ecocide https://grrlscientist.medium.com/how-do-we-know-a-species-is-really-extinct-c9c1c436c3c8