Endangered Species

The video discusses extinction, both as a natural process and one accelerated by human activities like hunting, habitat destruction, and global warming. It introduces the IUCN Red List, which categorizes species based on their risk of extinction. Categories include near threatened, vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild, and extinct. The video highlights specific species in each category and emphasizes the alarming rate of current species loss, suggesting a sixth mass extinction driven by human expansion.

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