Is it true that species of plants or animals go extinct everyday?

Question

They are not well known species, but is it true?

Answer 1

It's nonsense.For those that believe this is happening please name the 7 for last week and if you say its a computer model I call BS.

By the way isn't extinction just evolution in action?

Answer 2

Ya, though I think most of the species that are counted come from rain forests. I know it sounds weird, but in some rain forests (ex. the amazon), one tree can host an entire species. So if they cut hundreds and thousands of trees in the rain forests every day, hundreds of species are being killed because their habitat does not exist anymore.

Answer 3

Visit the following site for some of the best information out there on this topic.  It's the "United Nations Environment Programme/World Conservation Monitering Centre.  I was doing research lately and found this site.  It was a lifesaver.

Answer 4

Yes, as other answerers have already said.  I just wanted to add that Poodwaddle.com has a WorldClock that gives approximate statistics regarding these and other things, by day, week, month, year or from the moment (you can choose and go back and forth between choices).

You can view it at Poodwaddle or go to my site (I've put it on my homepage with Poodwaddle's permission).

An interesting fact, unfortunately, is that the barrels of oil produced seems to be the fastest growing number on the whole list (17,056,150,971 for this year and changing by the milisecond as I type here)

You can go to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ for the IUCN Species Survival Commision's list of endangered species.

Lili

animaltalks.com

Answer 5

Yes. And evolution creates new and better species to take their place.

Answer 6

i believe it's true  what with the way we're changing the face of the earth and it's waterways

Answer 7

That is a theory that has been put forth, although I have never seen a day-to-day list of species that became extinct. In fact, I have never seen a list of species that became extinct, say, last week.

The theory is that there are so many species that we don't know about, microbes and fungi and bugs, that given all the damage humans do to the environment, surely we must be extinguishing SOMETHING on a daily basis. The theory has been repeated so often and so vigorously and (frequently) violently that it seems that no one even questions it any more.

I still want to see the list of 365 species that became extinct last year, and the 365 the year before that. Until I see that list, I'm going to be more than a little skeptical.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Did you just land here from some other planet?  Not well known species?  HELLO?    Good grief!!!!

Answer 10

Sadly, horrifically and heartbreakingly... yes.  Many we don't even know about!

We discovery a variety of new species as well, but there could be countless species we have never encountered (in relatively small numbers admittedly)  that have their habitats wiped out in the blink of an eye.

The news isn't all horrible.  There is a major global effort going on to try and catalog the planet's entire range of flora and fauna.  It seems monthly that a newspaper story comes out about some amazing new discovery they have made.

People are also starting to make the links between habitat, wildlife and quality of life for all -- it took a long time, but more-and-more people are identifying themselves as pro environment and conservation.  Wahoo!

We still have a ways to go (global warming isn't helping), but at least with each passing day more people are siding with saving the planet.

Answer 11

Unfortunately, yes it definitely is true. Isn't it so heartbreaking even thinking about it? How sad..... :(