Java Stingaree Declared Extinct, A Grim Milestone For Marine Biodiversity
The extinction of the Javan Stingaree marks the first occurrence of a marine fish extinction caused directly by human activity.
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The extinction of the Javan Stingaree marks the first occurrence of a marine fish extinction caused directly by human activity.
Humans are bad for the other animals we share the planet with. The Java stingaree is the first marine fish species to go extinct as a result of human activity.
The Indonesian Java Stingray known solely from a single specimen collected in 1862 at a fish market in Jakarta, has officially been declared extinct and added to the upda
Java Stingarees are the first marine fish to be declared extinct as a result of human activity.
In 1862, German naturalist Eduard von Martens was part of a multiyear expedition to . That July, he found himself in a fish market in the city of Jakarta on the island of Java, then part of a Dutch colony. For a naturalist from temperate Germany, such a market must have been full of tropical […]