Vanishing rhinos, elephants and polar bears get a lot of press, but researchers warn tracking disappearing invertebrates like land snails will reveal the extent to which the sixth mass extinction is underway. Nigel Stork from Griffith University in Australia estimates we are losing approximately 100 species a day as a result of habitat disruption, climate change, poaching and other human-influenced factors, but New Scientist claims the evidence to support this is ‘thin’ since only 800 out of 1.9 million known species have been recorded as extinct. Claire Régnier from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris says this is because few researchers are paying attention to invertebrates.
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