Gone forever: 23 species declared extinct
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Death's come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 assorted birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct, the Associated Press has learned.
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New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest have been published by researchers as government officials said they will make a final decision this year on whether the birds are extinct.
The population has plummeted since colonies infected with white-nose syndrome were spotted in New York caves in the mid-2000s. The bat is likely to go extinct without a dramatic turnaround.
