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Welcome to Extinction of Species .ORG - the website dedicated to saving species from extinction - and in the process, saving ourselves and planet Earth! Please join us and participate. Publish, blog, translate, learn or teach - once you join you can create your own personal space on this site, and write or comment on anything you like. You can join groups of special interest and you can contact other members publically or privately. Extinction of Species .ORG wants to prevent all species from going extinct, and believes that the best way to save the planet is by saving its myriad species. As long as the tiger, lion, whale, bear, wolf, songbird, hummingbird, panda, leopard, jaguar, elephant, manatee, gorilla, rhino, eagle, condor, baboon, dolphin, sea lion, seal, hippo, cheetah, mountain lion, polar bear, humpback whale, camel, and all the other species survive; then planet Earth will support human life and continue to nurture life of all kinds, races, species and genome. Saving other species is not only the best way to save Humanity, Human Civilization, and our quality of life - it's the only way in the long term. Click on the "Read more" links at the bottom of each snippet to read each complete article, and find out why this is so. Time is of the essence, and Extinction is Forever if we're not in Time!

Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate in 2024

 

Getty Images Aerial shot of dense green rainforest with thick clouds of smoke rising up into the air

The world's tropical forests, which provide a crucial buffer against climate change, disappeared faster than ever recorded last year, new satellite analysis suggests.

Researchers estimate that 67,000 sq km (26,000 sq mi) of these pristine, old-growth forests were lost in 2024 – an area nearly as large as the Republic of Ireland, or 18 football pitches a minute.

Global Ice Melt to Destroy World's Coastlines - 2025

The world’s ice sheets just got a dire prognosis, and coastlines are going to pay the price

Glaciers in Antarctica on February 7, 2022. A new study suggests even if the world meets its climate targets it may not be enough to save the planet's ice sheets.

Glaciers in Antarctica on February 7, 2022. A new study suggests even if the world meets its climate targets it may not be enough to save the planet's ice sheets. 






Celtic rainforest facing species extinction crisis - 2025

 

Ben Porter a pool of water beneath a thick forest with craggy branches and moss covered floors. they scene is partially reflected in the water

Temperate rainforest, seen here in the Vale of Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, is found in areas subject to the influence of the sea

An "extinction crisis" is happening in Britain's temperate rainforests where some of the world's rarest mosses, lichens and liverworts are vanishing, ecologists have warned.

Also known as Celtic rainforests, temperate rainforests are found primarily along the UK's western coasts.

The human-chimp bond captured in an iconic photo

The human-chimp bond captured in an iconic photo

Hugo van Lawick The photo of Jane Goodall with infant chimp Flint challenged scientific norms and changed our view of the animal kingdom (Credit: Hugo van Lawick)

The photo of Jane Goodall with infant chimp Flint challenged scientific norms and changed our view of the animal kingdom

In 1964, Jane Goodall's husband Hugo van Lawick took a photo of her and an infant chimp reaching out to each other. Decades later, it continues to impact how we view chimpanzees.

Last male of his kind: The rhino that became a conservation icon

 

Getty Images The last male northern white rhino Sudan at the Ol Pejeta conservancy Kenya (Getty Images)

Tony Karumba's photo of Sudan with his carer made the rhino a global sensation in his final year

Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, died in 2018. In his final years, he became a global celebrity and conservation icon, helping raise awareness about the brutality of poaching.

When hungry elephants and people clash in a village

When hungry elephants and people clash in a village - human overpopulation and overdevelopment = destruction and loss of habitat which drives species to extinction.

An elephant prepares to "mock charge" the CATS Elephant Response Team's vehicle as the team attempt to drive it away from the town of Livingstone and back towards the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.

An elephant eyes the Elephant Response Team's vehicle as the team attempt to drive the animal away from the town of Livingstone in Zambia and back toward Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.

 

The emergency call comes in just before midnight. In the driver's seat of a battered Toyota Hilux pickup truck, 29-year-old Chamunolwa Jimayi chats briefly with the caller. He hangs up the phone and shouts to his two colleagues in the back to hold on tight, then shoots off at high speed through the city center, careening around the traffic.

US Reverses Course under Trump and other Countries follow suit, threatening the Planet - 2025

How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' pledge is affecting other countries

Getty Images US President Donald Trump points after speaking during the Unleashing American Energy event at the Department of Energy in Washington DC, US

Trump has said the US's oil and gas will be sold all over the world

The UN climate summit in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 ended with a call to "transition away from fossil fuels". It was applauded as a historic milestone in global climate action.

"Pronatilism" Debunked!

Some misguided people, today, who may call themselves "pronatalist", and who look at future predictions of negative population growth (meaning that population will decrease in the future, instead of continuing to increase), and see this as a problem, are wrong or are not thinking clearly. Some of them may believe that African and Arab and Asian populations are in the process of "replacing" or at least are overtaking the Caucasian, European-based ethnicities that have traditionally been the majority of the population in countries like the US, the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; and they are right - this is indeed happening, as is the Hispanicization of the US population because of such massive immigration. And they are right to be concerned about this. In a century there may be no nations left on Earth where Caucasians of European ancestry are the majority of the population if immigration is not stopped. And this is a problem. There will be African majority countries, Asian majority countries, Arab majority countries, Hispanic majority countries, but there will not be any Caucasian of European ancestry majority countries left if we do not take action now.

Great apes tease each other just like humans do, says new study

Great apes tease each other just like humans do, says new study






Scientists observed playful teasing in orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.

[Scientists observed playful teasing in orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.]






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