There are a lot of different species of animals who are at the verge of extinction. Once they have become disappeared then nothing can bring them back. The tragedy is that none of these would have become extinct their continued existence would not have delayed the development of human race even in the least way. These extinct species of animals could have been saved if enough people would have cared for them at that time.
The last DODO that died on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in the year 1681.
The last two great Auks (a pair) were slaughtered on june3rd 1844 on Eldey Rock off the coast of Iceland. The last blue buck was killed in 1799 in South Africa. The last Quake was also killed in South Africa in 1878. The last passenger pigeon died on September 1914 in Cincinnati zoo. No Indian pink headed duck has been seen alive since 1942.
These are some of the animals which have recently become extinct due to human interference, there are hundreds more, most of them are obscure creatures like the Eastern Barred Bandicoot, the hairy eared mouse Lemur, narrow toothed Hestia, the Auckland Island Merganser, the New Zealand Quail, the Wake Island Rail, the Guadeloupe Wren but some were large and impressive like the Moa, the Tasmanian Emu, Patagonian Giant Ground Sloth, the Schaumburg’s Deer and Stiller’s sea Cow.
At present over thousand kinds of animals can be said to be in danger to say nothing of invertebrate animals, like certain butterflies, moths, dragonflies, flower and ferns in danger too. Some of the which are currently at a risk of extinction are Pygmy Hippopotamus this species at one time was widely distributed in African Continent, but now it is restricted to only certain isolated rivers in the forest of Ivory Coast Liberia and in zoos it breeds quite well in zoos so they may escape extinction. Galapagos Flightless Cormorant was the largest Cormorant in the world, standing at more than two feet high. In 1963 there population got reduced to only about one thousand of them in existence, as a result this species is the subject of an active conservation program. Texas blind Salamander are the rare cave dwelling amphibian native to Texas water pollution and other side effects of cave commercialization greatly threatened this and many other cave dwelling species with extinction.
It is important that we all should love and respect these species which are left on this planet and Endeavour to play our part in the on-going survival of those at the verge of extinction.
