There have been no records of the cryptic treehunter since 2007, mainly due to extensive habitat loss in its region, Brazil. However, that doesnt mean that fewer animals are disappearing than were saving from extinction. Its official extinction has made waves in the birding community. Sadly, that makes the luxurious poison frog one of the not too long ago extinct animals on the planet. What are 6 endangered animals recently declared extinct? The last documented sighting of the baiji was in 2002, although Baiji Foundation scientists traveled over 3,200 km up the Yangtze River to seek them out in 2006. Dozens of frogs, fish, orchids and other speciesmany unseen for decadesmay no longer exist because of humanitys destructive effects on the planet. In the interim, the female gastric-brooding frog refused to eat, lest her hatchlings be scalded to death by secretions of stomach acid. Shankar S. CC BY 2.0. "Demography Reveals Populational Expansion Of A Recently Extinct Iberian Ungulate." Its main threat is habitat loss from logging and human settlement, but it is also threatened by the pet trade. By the 1900s, the population was reduced to about 100 individuals. The Queensland State government said it was the first documented mammal extinction caused by human-made climate change. With that in mind, here are the species that scientists and the conservation community declared lost in 2020, culled from media reports, scientific papers, the IUCN Red List and my own reporting. No West African black rhinos are known to be kept in captivity. All rights reserved. The last known Pinta giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii) was Lonesome George, an icon of the Galapagos, who died in captivity on June 24, 2012. These frogs used to be widely kept as pets once upon a time. These frogs are often referred to as poison arrow or poison dart frogs, and they are the brightest colored frogs in the world. 2016: e.T9017A65487433. If 15 percent of the worlds 1.25 million mite species were lost by the year 200, were talking tens to hundreds of thousands of extinctionsa number the researchers predict will continue to rise. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/categories-and-criteria, https://www.speciesplus.net/#/taxon_concepts/7154/legal, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Neotropic.svg, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000370, http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0016490, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GAZ_00000071, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#ConservationStatus, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000342, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000446, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011, https://eol.org/schema/terms/mineralizedSkeletonContains, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0000003, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104, https://eol.org/schema/terms/corneal_eyes, https://www.britannica.com/science/photoreception/Single-chambered-eyes#ref278820.