As we ring in 2015, we may also be greeting a new year during which several species, including the African elephant, polar bear and white rhino, may go extinct.
According to a new study recently published in the journal Nature, 41 percent of all amphibians on the planet now face extinction, while 26 percent of mammal species and 13 percent of birds are similarly threatened.
Nature World News has previously reported of such a modern-day extinction event, with many plant and animal populations rapidly vanishing. And unlike past mass extinction events (IE- the one that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago) that were supposedly caused by natural disasters or asteroid strikes, this one is driven mostly by human actions.
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