The thylacine, or Tasmanian wolf, was a doglike marsupial that once lived in Tasmania. It became extinct because of man. On September 7, 1936, Benjamin, the last living thylacine on earth, died in a zoo in Hobart, Austraila. Ironically, governmental protection for the thylacine was insitutited just a few months earlier that very year. Today is the 67th anniversary of the the death of the last of a unique and beautiful species.
This day is also National Endangered Species Day in Austrailia.
This link lists the many species that have become extinct because of man:
http://home.conceptsfa.nl/~pmaas/rea/extinctanimals.htm
To learn more about the thylacine, please go to
http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/
R.I.P.
