Alaotra Grebe has been declared Extinct in the 2010 Red List update for birds
Art: Chris Rose
BirdLife International has announced, in the 2010 IUCN Red List update for birds, the extinction of Alaotra Grebe Tachybaptus rufolavatus. Restricted to a tiny area of east Madagascar, this species declined rapidly after carnivorous fish were introduced to the lakes in which it lived. This, along with the use of nylon gill-nets by fisherman which caught and drowned birds, has driven this species into the abyss.
Madagascar's Alaotra Grebe was last seen in 1985 and is now Extinct
photo: Paul Thompson
Carnivorous fish blamed for grebe's extinction in Madagascar http://gu.com/p/2h8kk/tw via @guardian
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Species are vanishing quicker than at any point in the last 65 million years http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/end-of-alaotra-grebe-is-further-evidence-of-sixth-great-extinction-1982947.html via @Independent
