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In the United States, the ivory-billed woodpecker was lost as of 2021. In Brazil, the Spix's macaw has been officially extinct in the wild since 2019. Australia's Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent, was no more as of 2015. In July 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the Chinese paddlefish of the Yangtze River extinct.
Research warns that more than one in ten species may vanish by the end of the century. According to modeling, if we stay on our current course, global warming will cause a cascade of extinction in various plant and animal species.
Earth could lose 10 per cent of all plant and animal species by 2050, rising to 27 per cent by 2100, say scientists at the European Commission and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.