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This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk, great auk and woolly mammoth). Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the islands.
List of extinct animals of the British Isles – many species listed became extinct due to the retreat of Arctic conditions after the last Ice Age or due to man, many now surviving in the Arctic. List of extinct plants of the British Isles; Insular dwarfism; Insular gigantism; Fauna of Great Britain; Fauna of Ireland; Flora of Great Britain
A DEFRA study from 2006 suggested that 100 species became extinct in the UK during the 20th century: about 100 times the background extinction rate. [3] This has had a major impact on indigenous animal populations. Song birds in particular are becoming scarcer, and habitat loss has affected larger mammalian species.
List of extinct animals of the British Isles; H. ... List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene; S. List of Saint Helena, Ascension ...
The recently extinct animals of the Macaronesian islands in the North Atlantic are listed separately. The three Caucasian republics of Georgia , Azerbaijan , and Armenia are included, even though their territory may fall partially or fully in Asia depending on the definition of Europe considered.
“Finally, there was a further boat trip to Nightingale Island. It seemed like luck and time was against us but some of the wasps made it.” Only less than 10% of the wasps survived the trip.
The extinct Beothuks of Newfoundland made pudding out of the eggs of the great auk. [20]: 313 The Dorset Eskimos also hunted it. The Saqqaq in Greenland overhunted the species, causing a local reduction in range. [51] The only known illustration of a great auk drawn from life, Ole Worm's pet, received from the Faroe Islands, 1655
List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene