Owing to industrialization, commercial fishing, and hydroelectric dams, though, this number fell dramatically in only a few decades. The species was once fairly prevalent, with up to 6000 individuals thought to live in the river system during the 1950s. The animal has been “functionally extinct” since at least 2006, when a scientific population survey turned up no survivors. The Baiji River Dolphin was a species of freshwater River dolphin native only to the Yangtze River in China. Owing to protocol, the Baiji River Dolphin ( Lipotes vexillifer) has yet to actually be declared as being extinct - but, for all intents and purposes, the animal species is now long gone. With that said, here are 5 animals that have gone extinct in the past 50 years: Baiji River Dolphin People being how they are, I’m going to focus here on some of the more charismatic (to the eyes of a human) and immediately recognizable of the animal species that have gone in extinct in recent times. While going over all such extinctions would be an impossible thing to do in a single article, it’s probably worth highlighting some of the extinctions here in order to bring more eyes to the issue. The rise of industrial civilization over the last few hundred years has been accompanied by the extinction of a truly vast number of different animals (as well as plant, fungi, etc) species.
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