Recently Extinct Animals 2024. According to the international union for the conservation of nature (iucn) red list, more than 42,000 species are currently threatened with extinction, representing over a quarter of all species assessed by the list. An impossible task given that many of these have.
But 31 species of plants and animals have gone extinct in the latest tally. Any headlines claiming that we’ve “lost 73% of wildlife”, “73% of species have gone extinct” or “73% of species are declining” are incorrect.