No matter how you look at it, it remains OUR FAULT! We did it. Yes, now, 23 Species are Now EXTINCT! We done Good, didn’t we? Killed them completely off the face of the Earth.
Happy or Sad, our turn is coming too!. We can’t protect them, who will protect us? NO ONE! Greed rules the World! Anything in the way of making money gets THE AX!
Species proposed for delisting due to extinction:
Species Name | Where Found | When Listed | Last Confirmed Sighting |
Bachman’s warbler | FL, SC | 1967 | 1988 |
Bridled white-eye (bird) | GU (Guam) | 1984 | 1983 |
Flat pigtoe mussel | AL, MS | 1987 | 1984 |
Green-blossom pearly mussel | TN, VA | 1984 | 1982 |
Ivory-billed woodpecker | AR | 1967 | 1944 |
Kauai akialoa (bird) | HI | 1967 | 1969 |
Kauai nukupuu (bird) | HI | 1970 | 1899 |
Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (bird) | HI | 1967 | 1987 |
Large Kauai thrush (bird) | HI | 1970 | 1987 |
Little Mariana fruit bat | GU (Guam) | 1984 | 1968 |
Maui ākepa (bird) | HI | 1970 | 1988 |
Maui nukupuʻu (bird) | HI | 1970 | 1996 |
Molokai creeper (bird) | HI | 1970 | 1963 |
Phyllostegia glabra var. lanaiensis (plant) | HI | 1991 | 1914 |
Po`ouli (bird) | HI | 1975 | 2004 |
San Marcos gambusia (fish) | TX | 1980 | 1983 |
Scioto madtom (fish) | OH | 1975 | 1957 |
Southern acornshell mussel | AL, GA, TN | 1993 | 1973 |
Stirrupshell mussel | AL, MS | 1987 | 1986 |
Tubercled-blossom pearly mussel | AL, IL, IN, KY, OH, TN, WV | 1976 | 1969 |
Turgid-blossom pearly mussel | AL, AR, MO, TN | 1976 | 1972 |
Upland combshell mussel | AL, GA, TN | 1993 | mid-1980s |
Yellow-blossom pearly mussel | AL, TN | 1985 | 1980s |