Welcome to The Sixth Extinction! A website about the current extinction or biodiversity crisis. Since life began, on at least five occasions huge numbers of earth's species have died out in a relatively short time. The most recent of these mass extinctions, about 65 million years ago, swept away the dinosaurs and many other forms of life. All five caused by natural phenomena. Today, the extinction rate is increasing rapidly as a result of human interference in natural ecosystems. We are in the midst of the beginning of a new mass extinction, commonly referred to as The Sixth Extinction. Only we can stop it!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on 28 December 2017 the Beaverpond Marstonia (Marstonia castor), a freshwater snail from Georgia, is extinct. The announcement is in response
The Search for Lost Species initiative is today celebrating the incredible and unexpected rediscovery of the first of its top 25 “most wanted” lost species, the Jackson’s Climbing Salamander (Bolitoglossa jacksoni),
The very first Search for Lost Species expedition got underway 23 October 2017 with a quest to northern Myanmar to find the pink-headed duck, missing
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