Biodiversity 101, you know, the base notion of maintaining said concept at all costs as without it, we're dead, is not being adhered to as the world moves ever further into the abyss of global warming thanks to the continued burning of fossil fuels to continue the growth mantra of capitalism where nature becomes a profit resource to be exploited no matter what the cost may be.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers filmed in in Louisiana in 1935, when the birds were already rare. Despite pleas from conservationists and wildlife officials, the area was later logged by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.CreditCredit...Arthur A. Allen/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas, is gone forever, according to federal officials. So is the Bachman’s warbler, a yellow-breasted songbird that once migrated between the Southeastern United States and Cuba. The song of the Kauai O’o, a Hawaiian forest bird, exists only on recordings. And there is no longer any hope for several types of freshwater mussels that once filtered streams and rivers from Georgia to Illinois.
In all, 22 animals and one plant should be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, federal wildlife officials announced on Wednesday.
The announcement could also offer a glimpse of the future. It comes amid a worsening global biodiversity crisis that threatens a million species with extinction, many within decades. Human activities like farming, logging, mining and damming take habitat from animals and pollute much of what’s left. People poach and overfish. Climate change adds new peril.
An upcoming hellscape of our own making applies here, does it not?
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