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.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species

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@ClintBarton Maybe we can savc a DNA sample and in the future we can bring the species back.

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