8 Bird species declared extinct.

[Catherine]

That is bad when there are no sparrows. They are tough little birds and I assumed they would survive anything we could do to them.  Frogs we know are declining at an alarming rate. We have had insect losses and some are very much endangered.
I think of it as a major battle to save the monarch butterflies. A lot of people are planting milkweed and other pollinator plants. 
We did have a year where I only saw one butterfly. This year is much better.

The last time you saw the frogs was 2008? That is ten years. That is very bad. Frogs must be gone from the area. I wonder what else is gone. 

It is right there in front of us isn't it and we fail, to see it. There is a species extinction emergency going on and most people are totally unaware of it.  What will it take to make people aware so that we can do something?