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Baiji •
Northern white rhinoceros •
Ivory-billed woodpecker •
Imperial woodpecker •
Yangtze giant softshell turtle •
South China tiger •
Bornean rhinoceros •
Vaquita •
Fernandina Island tortoise •
Hyophorbe amaricaulis •
North Atlantic right whale On May 10, 2019, the
Australian Koala Foundation issued a
press release that opened with the sentence "The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) believes Koalas may be functionally extinct in the entire landscape of Australia." The press release was reported by multiple news agencies worldwide, most of which repeated the AKF's statement. Despite this,
koalas are not currently considered functionally extinct; while their population has decreased, the
IUCN Red List lists them only as "
Vulnerable". The AKF's press release was released on the eve of the
2019 elections in Australia, where topics such as
climate change were major issues. Distinct animal populations can also become functionally extinct. In 2011, a 3-year survey of the wildlife population in the Bénoué Ecosystem of
North Cameroon (the
Bénoué,
Bouba-Ndjidda, and
Faro national parks, and 28 hunting zones surrounding the parks) concluded that the North Cameroon population of
cheetahs (
Acinonyx jubatus) and
African wild dogs (
Lycaon pictus) was now functionally extinct. Non-Northern Cameroonian cheetahs are listed as "Vulnerable" by the
IUCN Red List. ==See also==