Published by admin on 28 Sep 2008 at 08:13 pm
Official: Monk Seal is Extinct
The Carribean Monk Seal, also known as the West Indian Seal, has officially been announced extinct as of July, 2008. This is the first seal species to become extcint as a result of human activities alone. It is truly saddening. Only old photographs and drawings remain of the Monk Seal.
“After five years of futile efforts in which not even a single sighting has been reported, the U.S. declared extinct, and also declared that no other seal species has been extinct because of us” (ZME Science).
Many animals are on the expressway to this same fate- polar bears, tigers, gorillas, cheetahs, rhinos, and whales- just to name a few of the literally thousands of animals which are currently endangered.
We have to do something now to change their fate.
Armin on 10 Nov 2008 at 3:23 pm #
This is both horrible and troubling. The number of animal species that have been going extinct is rising dramatically, as is the number that are placed on the endangered list. One day we will all regret what we are doing to this wonderful planet of ours. Thank you for putting this article here, as well as the link to the WWF. People need to be reminded that we are destroying innocent creatures and life in an attempt to simply make ourselves more “comfortable”.
Yadira on 28 Apr 2009 at 6:15 pm #
This is so sad
poor creatures are dying four the human fault because we don’t care about poor innocent little animals that can’t talk to say “stop killing ous” we just care about ous having what we want being comfortable throwing garbage every where we need to care more about our beautiful world because it will come the day that we all going to exticted.
Armin on 13 Jul 2009 at 9:51 pm #
You don’t even make sense you crazy ho. You really need to go to school as soon as you possibly can. Literacy is very important.