Archive · 4 Oct 2025
Seven Species Declared Extinct in Recent Years
Some animals and birds have disappeared in recent years.
This includes frogs like the Mountain Mist Frog and the Chiriqui Harlequin Frog, as well as the Golden Toad and Chinese Paddlefish.
The main reasons for these extinctions are problems like a fungus that harms frogs, weather changes, habitat destruction, and overfishing.
These issues caused these species to vanish completely.
More than 42,000 species are threatened with extinction.
Mountain Mist Frogs, found in Australia, were declared extinct in 2021 due to chytrid fungus.
Sharp-snouted Day Frogs also went extinct in 2021.
The Chiriqui Harlequin Frog went extinct due to the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).
The Golden Toad, native to Costa Rica, went extinct in 2019 because of weather changes and lack of rain.
The Chinese Paddlefish, a large freshwater fish, became extinct in 2019 due to overfishing and dam construction.
The Poo-uli bird was declared extinct in 2019, succumbing to rat predation and competition.
- Who
- Mountain Mist Frog, Sharp-snouted Day Frog, Chiriqui Harlequin Frog, Golden Toad, Chinese Paddlefish, Poo-uli, and Alagoas foliage-gleaner.
- What
- Species declared extinct in the last six years.
- When
- Declared extinct between 2019-2021.
- Where
- Australia, Panama, Costa Rica, China, and Brazil.
- Why
- Causes include habitat loss, chytrid fungus, changing weather, rat predation, competition, and overfishing.
- Species Assessed as Threatened
- Over 42,000
- Golden Toad Extinction
- 2019 due to weather changes and low rainfall
- Chinese Paddlefish Extinction
- 2019 due to overfishing and dams
- Poo-uli Extinction
- 2019 due to rat predation and competition
- Alagoas Foliage-Gleaner Extinction
- 2019 due to habitat destruction
- Extinction Cause for Chiriqui Harlequin Frog
- Chytrid fungus (Bd)
- Mountain Mist Frog Extinction
- 2021 due to Chytrid fungus
