The recent Red List of endangered plants, animals, birds and sea life released by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) offer a glooming forecast for many species that make the earth unique.
If the renting pressure from human activity continues, these evolutionary marvels like others will become extinct sooner. Global populations of several species have declined so drastically that the IUCN has added more than 180 species to the last years’ list.
The animals facing the serious threat include the western lowland gorilla in Africa, the Sumatran and Borne an Orangutans and India’s ghariyal belonging to crocodile order. The ghariyal population has come down as a result of net fishing and irrepressible loss of habitat.
Their numbers have plunged by about 60% in the last decades and their habitat has shrunk in the Gangas, Brahmaputra and Mahanadi rivers in India and Nepal. The ghariyal is now critically endangered and is just a step away from extinction in the world.
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The absence of for-sighted action is resulting in species that evolved over millions of years vanishing owing to pressure from a single species i.e. human being