It’s frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century.
Take this animal for example, one of the worlds most fasinating animals has just recently become extinct due to deforestation, these rhino's mostly make their homes in forests and high hill types of nature. Due to deforestation, their habitat is now gone because of it. They mostly feast on tree leaves because they are herbivors, so deforestation is taking away their food, then no wonder why they creatures have now become extinct. This is just one of the animals that has gone extinct out of thousands.