Saturday, January 12, 2019

California Monarch Butterfly / Lonely George the tree snail

Pollution, climate change, habitat loss, introduction of invasive species and the like, cause the extinction.

Extinction, is merely one of the effects from these environmental changes mainly driving by human beings, it can't be reserved, yet we are part of this ecosystem.

Lonely George the tree snail dies, and a species goes extinct

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/george-the-lonely-snail-dies-in-hawaii-extinction/

“The land snail extinction crisis hasn’t gotten as much publicity,” Rundell notes, even though “these species are an important part of life on earth, and when they start going extinct, it means that something is really wrong with the environment that supports us.”

California Monarch Butterfly Numbers Decline 86% in 2 Years

https://ktla.com/2019/01/06/california-monarch-butterfly-numbers-decline-86-in-2-years/

Researchers with an environmental group have labeled as “disturbingly low” the number of western monarch butterflies that migrate along the California coast.

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