Largest Mass Extinction! World’s Biggest Since Dinosaurs Claims WWF
London: The World Wide Fund (WWF), a well-known organization working for the global environment and animals, has warned the world that in the next decade, the earth is headed for the biggest destruction after the extinction of dinosaurs. Crores of trees and animals will become extinct in this. Creatures most threatened include elephants, polar bears, sharks, frogs and fish. The number of such creatures is 10 lakhs.
WWF has released its winners and losers report for the year 2021. It has been said in this report, ‘About one million creatures will become extinct in the next decade. This is going to be the biggest destruction after the great destruction in the dinosaur era. At present, 142,500 species are included in the Red List of Required Conservation and out of this 40,000 species are in danger of extinction.
This is the largest figure in this list, first prepared in 1964 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The WWF has warned that the rate of extinction of organisms on a global scale could increase very rapidly. The organization has called for a global conservation agreement. The animals most threatened with extinction include the elephants found in the forests of Africa. In the last 31 years, the number of these elephants has decreased by 86 percent.
Not only this, due to the rapid melting of ice in the Arctic sea, there is a danger of extinction of polar bears. It is estimated that by the year 2035, the entire Arctic region will be free of ice. Overfishing, habitat loss and the climate crisis have led to a 30 percent decline in shark populations of all types, the report said.
It is feared that the frogs and toads found in Germany will not be able to save themselves in this catastrophe and will perish. Due to the construction here, half of the amphibians have been included in the list of endangered species. Despite this dire warning, the WWF said that there is a ray of hope as there have been many success stories in the past year.
