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"Eight years ago, world governments made a pledge to put a halt to growing biodiversity loss by 2010. They have not succeeded. The ongoing loss of biodiversity has instead become even more severe of a threat to the planet's once-balanced ecosystems--it's become a full-on extinction crisis. Thanks to human development and expansion, species are now going extinct exponentially faster than ever before--they're dying out at the frightening speed of 1,000 times the natural rate."

A frog species thought to have been extinct for more than three decades has been sighted in farmland in Australia.

"Tigers in the Greater Mekong region are facing extinction, their numbers down more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade due to poachers and habitat destruction."

"One in six mangrove species faces extinction as coastal ecosystems are being destroyed or damaged by development, aquaculture, logging, and climate change, according to a new study. On the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central America, as many as 40 percent of mangrove species are threatened, the report said."

"Brandt's bat, a species not identified by science until 1970 and not seen in Ireland since 2003, has been declared probably extinct."

"In 2002 it was estimated that only 10 per cent of gorillas would remain by 2030. "We fear now that the gorillas may become extinct from most parts of their range in perhaps 15 years," said Christian Nellemann, of the UN Environmental Programme."

"Ulmus wentworthii pendula, "

"Forres-based charity Trees for Life will keep the six animals in a 30.4 acre enclosure on its Dundreggan Estate in Glen Moriston, Inverness-shire. It hopes the boar will control the spread of bracken which shades out other wild plants. Once a native species, the mammal was hunted to extinction in the UK by the 13th Century. "

Darwin would be heart broken----The Galapagos archipelago has already been transformed by global climate changes and human activity, a report has concluded.

This is messed up, "A series of events, including the 1982 El Nino, overfishing and the appearance of urchins that destroy coral, has altered the islands' marine ecosystems. At least 45 Galapagos species have now disappeared or are facing extinction. "

""The declines of species were so dramatic, widespread and so recent. I wish I could have seen what the country was like in 1800s with all this wildlife," Karanth says"