For example, the mass extinction 65 million years ago called the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction marked the end of the dinosaurs. Today, some have proposed that we are at the brink of another mass extinction, and this time it is man-made. For example, in central Africa 100,000 African elephants were illegally in just three years, punctuated with mass killing events like one of hundreds of elephants in 20124. As we stand at the precipice of the sixth mass extinction, where will the next 220 years take us? African elephants may be extinct by 2020 because people keep eating with ivory chopsticks.

Source: Huffington Post May 01, 2023 00:30 UTC