Thousands of species could go extinct by the end of the decade.
Curry, senior scientist at the Endangered Species Program of Center for Biological Diversity, toldM. A. Chan, professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, told:"One big category of animals most likely to go extinct by 2030 are species that we know almost nothing about—already-rare species that will blink out of existence without us having any real knowledge of their plight.
That would amount to some 4 million species,"but since the great majority of them would be unknown, it would be difficult to tell." As the number would likely rise decade by decade with an upwardly sloping curve, Raven predicts we might lose more than 500,000 of in the next 10 years.delistedFor instance, hunting and newly introduced predators left the world's rarest goose, the n, teetering on the edge of extinction back in 1967, when there were just 30 left in the wild.
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