Lions are one of the cats that is most in danger of extinction. Only 7500 remain, 22% less than in 2000.
We live on a very beautiful planet, where millions of plants and animals coexist. With an average temperature of 14ºC, life can exist on Earth and take on billions of shapes and colors. However, human beings have not known how to take care of it.
Proof of this is not only the current climate change, which we are accelerating more and more as we take over jungles and forests to turn them into cities, but also the massive extinction of living beings. According to a statement released by the Mexican Academy of Sciences and published on the Mexican portal, Inform, we cause the extinction of 72 species a day.
People are the beings who, due to our logical intelligence, can do practically anything we want. But many times we forget that we are not alone, that we are just one more piece of the enormous puzzle that is life on Earth. In fact, there are those who think that we no longer live in the Holocene, that warm period that began with the last ice age and that has allowed us to colonize all parts of the world, but in the Anthropocene.
What is the Anthropocene? A new geological era in which humans have already changed the Earth's natural cycle. This is a new term, appointed by a group of specialists who, through various studies, discovered that the footprint of the modern human being would remain forever on the planet.
The polar bear is one of the animals that is going through the worst of global warming. There are only 24 thousand left.
In this new era, animals are the most vulnerable. The climate is changing. But also its habitat. To this we must also add the danger of intensive and unsustainable hunting and fishing, as well as the introduction and invasion of exotic species promoted by globalization.
Thus, we are being directly or indirectly responsible for the disappearance of 72 species of animals every day, and of around 30.000 every year.
You can read the study here.