Human-caused climate change has doomed Bramble Cay melmomys

The Bramble Cay melomys has become
extinct, Australian scientists say.

Human-caused climate change appears to have driven the Great Barrier Reef’s only endemic mammal species into the history books, with the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, being completely wiped-out from its only known location.

It is also the first recorded extinction of a mammal anywhere in the world thought to be primarily due to human-caused climate change.

An expert says this extinction is likely just the tip of the iceberg, with climate change exerting increasing pressures on species everywhere.

Read The Guardian story - “Revealed: first mammal species wiped out by human-induced climate change.”