A Tearful Farewell to the 21 Species We Declared #Extinct in 2023
“I thought about how I would grieve for a friend.”
Many of these #species had not been seen in decades. But the announcement was a sobering reminder that the #ClimateCrisis crisis and #habitat#destruction are accelerating an #extinction crisis that threatens 2 million species
“It’s a horrible tragedy,” said the ecologist and author Carl Safina. “And I think it is a breach of our #moral guardrails.”
