U.S. officials have declared the ivory-billed woodpecker, officially extinct.
The newly extinct species are the casualties of climate change and habitat destruction, dying out sooner than any new protections can save them.
A million more species are at risk, many within decades.
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Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/29/endangered-species-ivory-billed-woodpecker/