Natural History Wanderings

from World Animal Foundation

You mentioned that there are “8 million” species in the World. Based on our most recent data, these figure has been updated, and The Estimated Number of Animal Species in the World Is 2.16 Million, From the Total Species Population of 8.7 Million.

As one of the leading organizations in advocacy, It’s the World Animal Foundation‘s utmost duty to ensure such statistics are current, not just on our platform but also on other relevant platforms.

Having recently revised our article with the newest statistics, I wanted to share this so you might consider a similar update, or if you are considering to write on this topic in the near future.

For your reference and to verify the new statistics, please visit our page: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/how-many-animals-are-in-the-world/

To provide your audience with direct access to the latest data, we’d be grateful if you could link to our article when making the update.

The New York Times  reports

Paleontologists estimate that before the global spread of humankind the average rate of species extinction was one species per million in each one- to 10-million-year interval. Human activity has driven up the average global rate of extinction to 100 to 1,000 times that baseline rate.

The most striking fact about the living environment may be how little we know about it. Even the number of living species can be only roughly calculated. A widely accepted estimate by scientists puts the number at about 10 million. In contrast, those formally described, classified and given two-part Latinized names (Homo sapiens for humans, for example) number slightly more than two million. With only about 20 percent of its species known and 80 percent undiscovered, it is fair to call Earth a little-known planet.

Read full story The 8 Million Species We Don’t Know – The New York Times