Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at

Nearly 3,000 species in the country of Wales, in the U.K., are now found in just a handful of locations, according to a recent report. These species include hundreds of plants, fungi and mosses, as well as 25 bird, six mammal, five freshwater fish and one amphibian species. The report, produced by Natural Resources Wales (NRW), a Welsh government-sponsored body, notes that 114 species were last seen in Wales in the 1950s or later. Since 2000, 11 of these species have gone locally extinct, including the whiteworm lichen (Thamnolia vermicularis), belted beauty moth (Lycia zonaria), and birds like the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) and European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur). “This report makes it clear that we aren’t simply ‘at risk’ of seeing species going extinct in Wales, it’s alread