Animals living on 32,000 acres of land of Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Northern Virginia are associated with one thing: the risk of extinction.
At the risk of extinction including Mongolia, more than 20 species, the blue ridge mountain was disturbed in the foothills Prayer Horse, which disappeared from the wild in the late 1960s Institute’s Field. There are red pandas, mango wolves and cloudy leopards to keep some more names.
The institute studies a species of breeding, ecology, genetics, migration, migration and conservation stability, with the final goals of extinction of wildlife and protecting from future protectionists. In some cases, scientists are responsible for breeding and re -presenting them to their houses.
But those who work to preserve these species and remove them from the list of endangered species are still concerned with the rate on which the species are disappearing.
“We are seeing that species are disappearing up to 1000 times at 10, 100, general background rate,” SCBI Protection Biologist Melissa Songar Told CBS News.
International Union for Protection of Nature Wags In the beginning of 2025, 28%of the world evaluated species, or more than 47,000, is at risk of extinction. That number includes only more than animal species, also threatened to important insects, plant and tree species.
“So we think, okay, okay, we are losing species here and there, you know, there are many other species,” Song, “says,” But the thing is that when we lose a species, it has a cascading effect. “
A great example of this effect is with Black-Footed Pharret, which originally resides in North American great plains, but has been in danger since 1967.
While the species remain in the endangered list, its population has increased since the efforts of protection in the institute started.
“Every animal in the ecosystem is important for that ecosystem,” says Adrien’s crosserA cheetah biologist in SCBI, “All of them have a really important role.”
When it comes to black-foot phards, the crosser says they are “a mixture of hunters and hunt for other large carnivores, which means that other animals are left without food sources in the absence of a phere.
“Anytime you remove a species completely from the ecosystem, you cause imbalance in that ecosystem,” Crusier says.
Crosser’s team is currently taking care of around 60 fare kits, which will be released in the colorado wilde in the fall.
“Whenever we have children, I think we have done our work,” the crosser says with a smile.
