5 Plants and Animals that are Endangered in 2023

Most ecologists agree that the earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction event. All over the world, living organisms are looking down the barrel of climate change, habitat destruction and exploitation. The most conservative estimates place the number of species lost per year at 10 times the “background rate” (which is calculated from when life began to now).

Most extinctions go undocumented, but some are caught on the pages of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (ICUN) Red List of threatened species. The list contains obituaries for the latest victims of the…