Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970

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and what was the point in making the distinction?

I'm all too painfully aware of this; try every day to avoid going nuts as a result, avoid thinking of what I can do nothing about.

Yes. It's distressing that the so-called most superior extant creature, homo sapiens, has brought the biodiversity of the world to this critical state of affairs. Stupidity, greed, callousness, cruelty on a scale that can hardly be comprehended.

No, the link goes to the MSN news homepage, because they've changed the url. It's just that Trump is busy making news as usual.

Here's the updated link:

Species that have gone extinct in our lifetime

Tested this one and it works.

Well stated!

And from elsewhere in the same article:

That's why we need to do something about mass immigration. The world's population is getting out of control.

The way that the human-caused extinction process usually works, Ezra, is that a species goes into decline, becomes endangered, becomes critically endangered and then goes extinct. So naturally they were "rare" just before they became extinct. So the answer to your question is a simple matter of critical thinking.

I won't laugh 100% at that comment, because after all it's theoretically possible that mass immigration could contribute to a substantial loss of animal populations. If a million people on their way to a new home walk past a particular habitat and each one takes out a member of a species, then, yes, that would reduce and maybe even eliminate its population.

But until I see evidence that mass immigration actually does have a substantial impact on animal populations, I'll still be laughing 99+%.

I think it's safe to say that most human-based extinctions are caused not by immigration, but by stay-at-home people.

Like the ongoing annual bird massacre:


Bird Deaths By Power Source
U.S. News & World Report

As you research kiprobalhato's list, do let us know which species became extinct due to mass immigration:

japanese sea lion

saudi gazelle

pyrenian ibex

wimmer's shrew

baiji

emma's giant rat

kouprey

one striped opossum

dinagat hairy-tailed cloud rat

new zealand greater short tailed bat

golden toad

yunnan lake newt

ainsworth's salamander

gastric brooding frog

javan tiger

bachman's warbler

eskimo curlew

mariana mallard

moho braccatus


maui 'akepa

hooded seedeater

'o'u

dusky seaside sparrow

alaotra grebe

Because a subspecies can represent a tiny percentage of the entire species. Some subspecies are so rare they barely exist and are the result of a rare mutation or a fluke.

This makes we wonder if there is some master DNA bank with all animal DNA, like the "seed bank".

It has a crazy impact. When you flood people in from the third world who live more with nature and then chop trees down and replace fields with concrete and tarmac so you end up building millions and millions of houses, you destroy plenty of nature.

Then you have less room for houses so you start building houses that are more closed in with tiny gardens then you end up working towards the extinction of hedgehogs that trace back millions of years. But best not to think about mass immigration cause it's best not to be called a racist.