- What animals live in the Amazon? And 8 other Amazon facts
1 What animals live in the Amazon? The Amazon is one of Earth’s last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles, and pink river dolphins, and it is home to sloths, black spider monkeys, and poison dart frogs It contains one in 10 known species on Earth, 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and more than 370 types of reptiles
- How Did the ‘Great Dying’ Kill 96 Percent of Earth’s Ocean . . .
The so-called "Great Dying" depleted ocean oxygen levels, effectively suffocating nearly all of the planet's marine life William Cho via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2 0 license Some 252 million years
- Biodiversity in rainforests
Although they cover less than 2% of Earth's surface, rainforests are home to an estimated 50% of all terrestrial species The exact number of species inhabiting the world's tropical rainforests remains unknown, with estimates ranging from 3 to 50 million
- Saving the endangered axolotl: A call to preserve biodiversity
It means that the 20cm-long, soft-skinned, water dwelling salamander is on a list with 1 million other animal and plant species that are threatened with extinction, many within decades This extinction crisis is another example of the destruction of our planet’s biodiversity – the life support system for humanity
- Scientists warning to humanity on insect extinctions
The number of threatened and extinct insect species is woefully underestimated because of so many species being rare or undescribed For example, the IUCN Red List (version 2019-2) only includes ca 8400 species out of one million described, representing a possible 0 2% of all extant species (IUCN, 2019)
- 47. 1 The Biodiversity Crisis - Biology - OpenStax
Current Species Diversity Despite considerable effort, knowledge of the species that inhabit the planet is limited A recent estimate suggests that the eukaryote species for which science has names, about 1 5 million species, account for less than 20 percent of the total number of eukaryote species present on the planet (8 7 million species, by one estimate)
- Extinction: Urgent change needed to save species, says UN - BBC
It sets out a bullet point list of eight major transitions that could help stop the ongoing decline in nature "Things have to change," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the convention's executive
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