#melomys rubicola

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Animal of the Day!

Bramble Cay Melomys (Melomys rubicola)

(Photo from State of Queensland)

Extinction Date- 2015

Habitat- Bramble Cay

Size (Weight/Length)-16 cm

Diet- Succulents; Turtle eggs

Cool Facts- The Bramble Cay melomys may seem like an insignificant rodent, but these little guys were officially known as the first mammal to go extinct due to climate change. Found on a tiny island off the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, these melomys were threatened by a mixture of storms and rising sea level as the entire Cay was only 3 meters above sea level. During surveys, the last known Bramble Cay melomys was spotted in 2009 and they were officially declared extinct in 2015. Their extinction was a massive wakeup call for mammalian extinctions due to anthropocentric change. The Cape York melomys remains on mainland Australia is considered least concern thanks to preservation of their natural habitat and attempts of eliminating invasive species like foxes, cats, and rabbits. 

Rating- 12/10 (Forever remembered.)

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†Bramble Cay Melomys (Melomys rubicola)

Photo: State of Queensland A tiny, 5 hectare sand cay just 50 kilometres from the mouth of Papua New Guinea’s Fly River is regularly greeted by flocks of brown boobies, terns, and nesting green sea turtles. Coral reef surrounds the isolated cay, which only reaches 3 metres above sea level. From the centre spreads a low herbaceous cover of predominately boerhavia albiflora and portulaca oleracea. But for almost ten years now, something has been missing. Perhaps clinging to driftwood, ancestors of the Bramble Cay Melomys floated across wide waters, or maybe were stranded by rising seas. However they arrived they made the guano dotted grassland of Bramble Cay their own, existing no where else in the world. Melomys is a genus of wet habitat rodents found across far north Queensland, New Guinea, and the Torres Strait. Measuring between 14 and 16 centimetres with a tail length to match, M. rubicola had small ears, big feet, and a thickly scaled tail with a prehensile tip. The fur was all russet grey except their paler grey underside.

Melomys rubicola was in serious decline in the late 20th century. Once described as a vast population of hundreds, a 1988 survey trapped only 42 mice and estimated just 93 individuals remained. In 2004, a replication survey trapped only 12. Increasingly severe weather inundated the island from 2004 onward. Extremes that, along with sea level rise, were a consequence of human-induced climate change. Though the precarious situation facing the survival of M. rubicola had been known for decades, it failed to attract wider attention or receive funding. A recovery plan was made in 2008, but wasn’t implemented. Finally, in 2014, after finding no melomys on the island, and the vegetation direly sparse, a team of researchers planned to return and conduct a large scale trapping operation to begin a captive breeding program. Unfortunately, when they returned, not a trace of an individual was found. Extreme weather caused the loss of vegetation which melomys relied on for food, so they likely starved. Many also probably drowned as a direct result of encroaching water during storms. M. rubicola was declared extinct by the IUCN in May of 2015. In early 2019, the Australian government recognised it as such, and the announcement made news globally, being reported as the first mammal extinction caused by anthropogenic climate change. Though awareness or action for the Bramble Cay Melomys came too late, conservationists hope a lesson can be learned; hesitation and complacency in the face of human-driven extinctions may be more catastrophic than we imagine.

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RIP Melomys rubicola

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Excerpt from this story from The Revelator:

We lost a lot of species in 2019.

The year started with the extinction of a tiny Hawaiian snail and ended with the loss of one of the world’s largest freshwater fishes.

Along the way we also said goodbye to three bird species, a shark, two frogs, several plants, and a whole lot more.

About two dozen species were declared extinct (or nearly so) in 2019, although the total number of species lost this year probably numbers in the thousands. Scientists typically wait years or even decades before declaring a species well and truly extinct, and even then only after conducting extensive searches.

Images of some of the now extinct species. The article lists more species, some with photos, that are extinct, effectively extinct, extinct in the wild, and so on. When will a photo of the two-legged human species wearing a gas mask be added to some list in the future?

Achatinella apexfulva — The last individual of this Hawaiian tree snail, known as “Lonesome George,” died in captivity on New Year’s Day. Disease and invasive predators drove it to extinction.

Alagoas foliage-gleaner (Philydor novaesi) — Known from just two sites in Brazil, this bird was last seen in 2011 and was declared extinct in 2019 following the destruction of its habitats by logging, charcoal production and conversion to agriculture.

Boulenger’s speckled skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum) — A “complete enigma,” unseen for more than 130 years. Scientists hope the announcement of its possible extinction will jumpstart efforts to relocate it and conserve its endangered relatives.

Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) — Last seen in 2009 when rising oceans lapped at its tiny islet habitat, the melomys was officially declared extinct in 2019, making it the first mammal extinction caused by climate change and sea-level rise.

Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius) — One of the world’s largest freshwater fish, native to the Yangtze River, the paddlefish probably died out between 2005 and 2010 due to overfishing and habitat fragmentation. The IUCN still lists it as “critically endangered,” but a paper published Dec. 23, 2019, declared it extinct after several surveys failed to locate the species.

Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) — The last known female of this species died in China in April during an artificial insemination procedure, making the species effectively extinct.

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O melomys rubicola desapareceu e a culpa é do aquecimento global

O melomys rubicola desapareceu e a culpa é do aquecimento global

A Austrália oficializou esta terça-feira a extinção de um roedor que tinha como habitat uma ilha Grande Barreira de Coral, naquela que terá sido a primeira extinção de uma mamífero causada por alterações climatéricas induzidas pela actividade humana.

Semelhante a um rato, o animal – conhecido na Austrália pela designação de Bramble Cay melomys – foi avistado pela última vez em 2007 e ao longo…

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First climate change extinction of a species of mammal: melomys rubicola aka the Bramble Cay melomys.

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Local weather Change Claims Its First Mammal Extinction

It is official: Local weather change has claimed its first mammal extinction. This week the Australian authorities declared the extinction of a tiny rodent referred to as Bramble Cay melomys (often known as the Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys rubicola). The quiet announcement was buried in a press launch about enacting stronger protections for different endangered species. It comes three years after a extra detailed declaration by the state authorities of Queensland, which itself adopted an exhaustive search of the cay looking for any proof of the species' existence. The Bramble Cay melomys lived in only a single habitat, a small reef island on the northern tip of the Nice Barrier Reef, close to Papua New Guinea. The sandy cay--which solely measures about 1,100 ft by 500 ft and rises simply three ft above sea level--has lately been buffeted by storm surges from excessive climate occasions. The heavy waters have reportedly worn out about 97 p.c of the land mass's vegetation--the melomys's solely supply of meals. Based on the 2016 report, the final particular person confirmed to have seen the Bramble Cay melomys alive was a fisherman who noticed one in late 2009. It now appears attainable that would have been the final surviving member of the species. The Bramble Cay melomys was as soon as described as comparatively frequent, however that was now not the case by the top of the 20th century. A 1998 survey estimated the inhabitants at 93 people, down from "hundreds" 20 years earlier. Extra surveys in 2002 and 2004 turned up simply 10 and 12 of the rats, respectively, in accordance with accounts revealed in a 2008 restoration plan for the species. That plan, which now appears painfully prescient, referred to as out sea-level rise, flooding and coastal erosion as then-potential threats. Sadly, not a lot was ever completed about that 2008 restoration plan, and people threats turned very actual. Tim Beshara, federal coverage director for the Wilderness Society, informed the Sydney Morning Herald that the plan was by no means completed or acted upon. The Australian authorities's announcement ought to come as no shock. When Queensland introduced the probably extinction in 2016, they recognized "human-induced climate change the root cause of the loss of the Bramble Cay melomys"--a truth picked up in headlines on the time all over the world. Now these headlines are repeating. Even Fox Information picked up the melomys's extinction in an article warning a couple of sea-rise "time bomb" that Antarctic melting will pose for the area. That is one thing, at the very least. Maybe this second declaration of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys will lastly encourage sufficient consideration to stop the lack of related species--or at the very least give governments a push to mobilize protecting efforts earlier than it is as soon as once more too late. Read the full article

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В Австралии вымерли рифовые мозаичнохвостые крысы, первые в мире – из-за изменений климата Австралийские власти подтвердили вымирание рифовых мозаичнохвостых крыс. 18 февраля Министерство окружающей среды Австралии перенесло этот вид из списка исчезающих в категорию вымерших, говорится в пресс-релизе ведомства. Это млекопитающее стало первым видом, который вымер из-за изменений климата. Об этом свидетельствуют результаты исследования, которое провели ученые из Квинсленда (Австралия) в 2014 году. В докладе, опубликованном в 2016-м году, сказано, что с 29 августа по 5 сентября 2014 года исследователи установили 900 ловушек для мелких млекопитающих, 60 видеокамер и искали следы обитания рифовых мозаичнохвостых крыс. Они пришли к выводу, что млекопитающие вымерли. Причиной исчезновения вида "почти наверняка" назвали затопление океаном рифа – среды обитания рифовой мозаичнохвостой крысы.   Первыми рифовые мозаичнохвостые крысы (Melomys rubicola или Bramble Cay Melomys) увидели и описали в 1845 году европейцы, которые стреляли в "больших крыс" для спорта, пишет издание Рhys.org. Эти создания обитали только на острове Брембл-Кей, где и были обнаружены. В последний раз животное видели в 2009 году местные рыбаки.

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An Australian rodent has become the first climate change mammal extinction

For thousands of years, generations of Melomys rubicola lived and bred on a sandy bank in the Torres Strait known as Bramble Cay. Some time between 2009 and 2014 the last of this species died; probably drowned in a storm surge.

Unlike koalas or whales, the small rodent was never cute enough to rate much of a conservation effort. It's only with its extinction - noted for the first time by the Federal Government, in a press release from Environment Minister Melissa Price - that it's attracted interest from beyond the circle of biologists and conservationists that warned of its demise.

This was probably the first recorded mammal species-loss because of human-induced climate change, according to the Queensland Government, which reported on the extinction in 2016.

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New Painting by Marius Mason

New Painting by Marius Mason

from Support Marius Mason The story is a sad one. This tiny mammal, Melomys Rubicola, used to live on a little island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It was the only place in the world where they lived, but they could not survive the change in climate that destroyed the vegetation they ate and sheltered among. Researchers have declared that Melomys Rubicola became extinct as a direct result of…

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Know : List of Animals & Plants that went extinct in this decade (2010-19)

Know : List of Animals & Plants that went extinct in this decade (2010-19)

MammalsBettongia anhydra (Desert bettong)Conilurus capricornensis (Capricorn rabbit-rat)Dusicyon avusLeporillus apicalis (Lesser stick-nest rat)Melomys rubicola (Bramble Cay melomys)Notomys robustus (Broad-cheeked hopping mouse)Pennatomys nivalis (Nevis rice rat)Pipistrellus murrayi (Christmas Island pipistrelle)Pseudomys auritus (Long-eared mouse)Sus bucculentus (Indo-Chinese warty pig)BirdsAcro…

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İklim Değişikliği Sebebiyle Soyu Tükenen İlk Memeli: Melomys rubicola

https://www.bilimgunlugu.com/?p=10812&utm_source=SocialAutoPoster&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Tumblr Maalesef yükselen deniz seviyeleri, bir memeli türünün daha sonunu getirdi. İklim Değişikliği Sebebiyle Soyu Tükenen İlk Memeli: Melomys rubicola, https://www.bilimgunlugu.com/?p=10812&utm_source=SocialAutoPoster&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Tumblr

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[Science] Melomys Rubicola, premier mammifère officiellement éteint à cause du réchauffement climatique

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İklim Değişikliği Sebebiyle Soyu Tükenen İlk Memeli: Melomys rubicola

İklim Değişikliği Sebebiyle Soyu Tükenen İlk Memeli: Melomys rubicola! Maalesef yükselen deniz seviyeleri, bir memeli türünün daha sonunu getirdi.

Melomys rubicola – Wikiwand

Avusturalya hükümeti geçen haftalarda bir memeli türünün iklim değişikliği nedeniyle neslinin tükendiğini bildirdi. Bu resmi açıklama ile bir memeli türünün iklim değişikliği sebebiyle neslinin tükendiği ilk kez ilan edilmiş oldu.

Bilimsel adı Melomys rubicolaolan bu canlı küçük bir kemirgen olup ‘Bramble Cay melomys’ veya ‘the Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat’ (Bramble…

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İklim Değişikliği Sebebiyle Soyu Tükenen İlk Memeli: Melomys rubicola

İklim Değişikliği Sebebiyle Soyu Tükenen İlk Memeli: Melomys rubicola! Maalesef yükselen deniz seviyeleri, bir memeli türünün daha sonunu getirdi.

Melomys rubicola – Wikiwand

Avusturalya hükümeti geçen haftalarda bir memeli türünün iklim değişikliği nedeniyle neslinin tükendiğini bildirdi. Bu resmi açıklama ile bir memeli türünün iklim değişikliği sebebiyle neslinin tükendiği ilk kez ilan edilmiş oldu.

Bilimsel adı Melomys rubicolaolan bu canlı küçük bir kemirgen olup ‘Bramble Cay melomys’ veya ‘the Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat’ (Bramble…

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La première victime officielle du changement climatique

La première victime officielle du changement climatique

Cette semaine, le gouvernement australien a déclaré l’extinction d’un minuscule rongeur appelé Bramble Cay melomys (également connu sous le nom de rat à queue mosaïque Bramble Cay, Melomys rubicola). L’annonce silencieuse a été enterrée dans un communiqué de presse sur la mise en place de protections renforcées pour les autres espèces en voie de disparition.

La première victime du changement…