Cop this: Another 23 species declared extinct
WORLD leaders have used the landmark of a month to go until COP26 to urge further climate action.
The environmental summit, due to be held in Glasgow, is being billed as the last chance to tackle the climate crisis.
The calls coincided with news from the US that a further 23 species have been declared extinct.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has determined that 11 birds, eight types of mussel, two fish, one plant and one bat have all died out. The FWS said that the loss of these species, including the Mariana fruit bat and ivory billed woodpecker, is ‘a sobering reminder that extinction is a consequence of human-caused environmental change’.