Amazon eagle faces starvation in 'last stronghold'

[UngulateNerd92]

Conservationists say one of the world's largest eagles has "nearly zero" chance of surviving Amazon deforestation.

According to a new study, the bird is struggling to feed its young in parts of the rainforest that have been stripped of trees.

About 17% of the Amazon has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses have recently been on the rise.

The harpy eagle is the largest in the Americas, with huge talons for hunting monkeys and sloths in the treetops.

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57665575.amp

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Conservationists say one of the world's largest eagles has "nearly zero" chance of surviving Amazon deforestation.

According to a new study, the bird is struggling to feed its young in parts of the rainforest that have been stripped of trees.

About 17% of the Amazon has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses have recently been on the rise.

The harpy eagle is the largest in the Americas, with huge talons for hunting monkeys and sloths in the treetops.

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57665575.amp

This is really terrible news but thank you for sharing it.

Sadly despite being initially slightly more optimistic about pressure coming from Biden to the Bolsonaro administration regarding the Amazon I've sort of become jaded about it now.

It is really depressing to think that the Amazon will likely lose it's avian apex predator.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

This is really terrible news but thank you for sharing it.

Sadly despite being initially slightly more optimistic about pressure coming from Biden to the Bolsonaro administration regarding the Amazon I've sort of become jaded about it now.

It is really depressing to think that the Amazon will likely lose it's avian apex predator.

Yeah that is upsetting to think about! Though being extinct in the wild is the second to the last place I want them (being fully extinct is the last), at least they have a captive insurance population if you will.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Yeah that is upsetting to think about! Though being extinct in the wild is the second to the last place I want them (being fully extinct is the last), at least they have a captive insurance population if you will.

True and there are other important population's elsewhere in the Americas but even so it will be an utter tragedy to lose them from the Brazilian Amazon.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

True and there are other important population's elsewhere in the Americas but even so it will be an utter tragedy to lose them from the Brazilian Amazon.

Oh for sure!

 

[UngulateNerd92]

I shared this article with some friends of mine and one of them said "Make it stop! This has got to stop!" and another friend said, "We are imploding little by little" and I agree with them. I also shared this article with my aunt and she said, "It doesn't have to be this way" and again, I agree with her. I doesn't have to be this way.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

I shared this article with some friends of mine and one of them said "Make it stop! This has got to stop!" and another friend said, "We are imploding little by little" and I agree with them. I also shared this article with my aunt and she said, "It doesn't have to be this way" and again, I agree with her. I doesn't have to be this way.

I'm glad that you shared this article and that they care about the plight of this species.

I agree it doesn't have to be this way but what concerns me is that it may be too late to be any other way with what is occurring in the Amazon.