Why Don’t We Hear About More Species Going Extinct?

All of which raises the question: If so many species are going extinct, why don’t we hear about new extinctions every day? For example, a 2005 paper by Stuart Butchart and other conservation experts identified several types of evidence to be used before a species could be considered “possibly extinct.” One of the most well-known cases of the Romeo Error took place in the Philippines, where the island of Cebu experienced so much deforestation that several of its native species were declared extinct early in the 20th century.

Source: blogs.scientificamerican.com