Science
558 mammal species may go extinct by 2100 – Telangana Today
The current diversity of mammals consists of approximately 5,700 extant species. At least 351 mammal species have gone extinct over the past 126,000 years.
By 2100, the number of mammal species going extinct globally is likely to reach 558 if conservation efforts are not stepped up, researchers have predicted.
For all the mammal species that have gone extinct so far, humans are almost entirely to be blamed.
We are losing biodiversity every year, and with every extinct species and population, we lose unique evolutionary history, they wrote.
The current diversity of mammals consists of approximately 5,700 extant species. At least 351 mammal specie…
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