Estimated Annual Wildlife Deaths (All Animals): Total: ~100 sextillion (mostly invertebrates from natural causes). Human-caused: ~10 trillion. Non-human: ~100 sextillion
Over 100 Years: Human: ~1 quadrillion Non-human: ~1 septillion
Over 500 Years: Human: ~5 quadrillion Non-human: ~5 septillion
Over 1000 Years: Human: ~10 quadrillion Non-human: ~100 septillion
Long ago, woolly mammoths roamed Earth, thriving alongside humans for over 30,000 years, their images carved in ancient art. Yet, relentless hunting and shifting climates drove them to extinction just 4,000 years ago. Today, their fate mirrors the peril facing our wildlife, threatened by roads, poaching, and habitat loss. Let’s rise to fight back with new ideas, innovative lifestyles, and sustainable solutions to create a brighter future for every species. Rescue, protect, and restore or follow the mammoth into silence.
TERRAIN
​Across savannas, mountains, and wetlands, terrestrial treasures like lions and elephants have lost 83 percent of their numbers in 100 years to habitat devouring plows, poacher's bullets for sport, and roadkill blurs that shatter herds, all driven by insatiable expansion that poisons waters and erodes the very soils they sustain. As keystones filtering rivers and seeding forests, humans must expand protected corridors with drone patrols, embrace regenerative grazing that rebuilds grasslands, and engineer wildlife bridges over asphalt veins, forging landscapes where communities learn to save, protect, and restore these vital lives in balanced abundance. Stand firm: heal the ground they tread, or inherit a world stripped of its wild pulse.
AQUATIC
Beneath endless waves from coral cradles to abyssal voids, marine marvels including turtles and whales have seen half their populations vanish over a century through bycatch drownings in greedy nets, plastic choked gullets mimicking meals, and warming acids bleaching reef havens that nurture trillions in life. These oceanic engineers, oxygenating air and sequestering carbon at rainforest paces while buffering storms, implore us to triple no take sanctuaries, innovate biodegradable gear that spares the innocent, and restore mangrove shields against toxic tides, unleashing blue realms teeming with resilient migrations. Dive deep: purify the cradle of life, or drown in the silence of emptied seas.
AERIAL
In the boundless vault above, billions of birds and bats have plummeted over a century from collisions with human spires, poisoned prey, and fragmented flyways, their songs silenced by unchecked sprawl and chemical haze that starves flocks and severs migrations. These aerial architects, dispersing seeds across continents and patrolling skies to enforce balance, call for retrofitting towers with feather safe barriers, weaving organic farmlands that revive prey abundances, and turning lethal skies into thriving airways where every glide fuels planetary renewal. Rise with them: reclaim the currents, or watch the heavens empty forever.
