10 Animals That Will Be Extinct Within Your Lifetime
As anybody who watched the BBC’s Planet Earth series will tell you, animal conservation funds and programs are fraught with all kinds of bureaucratic caveats and requirements. Though we clearly have the money and resources to save entire species, arguments about how to fund such initiatives and how to most effectively carry them out are fraught with contradiction and disagreement.
In the meantime, though, animals continue to be added to endangered species lists, habitats are perpetually depleted, hunting and poaching continue and pollution levels increase. Accordingly, TreeHugger’s Matthew McDermott has a depressing listicle of 10 Animals That Will Be Extinct Within Your Lifetime, which includes the Siberian tiger (at right).

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