July 22, 2022, it was a sad day! The white sturgeon, known as the "king of Freshwater fish in China", was declared completely extinct yesterday!
White sturgeon, also known as Chinese swordfish, sword-kissed white sturgeon, because its snout is long like a duck's beak, can also be commonly known as duck-billed sturgeon, and some white sturgeon's kiss is straight as a sword, so it can also be called elephant trunk sturgeon, and there is a louder name: the giant panda in the water. Now it can only be seen in museum specimens.
More and more species are becoming endangered, and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species shows that there are already 41,000 endangered organisms included in the statistics. "Endangered" is also defined by the alliance as already "likely to become extinct at any time".
In the list updated yesterday, the Chinese white sturgeon is extinct!
The red list of endangered species also adds a new butterfly: the migratory monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), known for its summer breeding grounds from Mexico and California throughout the United States and Canada in winter, and its population has also decreased year by year due to environmental damage, and it is now on the endangered list.
Some people say that the earth has experienced five mass extinctions, and now it is the sixth, and this time it is due to human activities and will also determine the fate of mankind.
Therefore, to protect the environment and protect the ecosystem is to protect human beings themselves!
