I killed a mammal!

We are all being warned of the possible effects of climatic changes. Some visuals run by National Geographic bring stories of horror in a representative fashion and nowadays we have coffee table books showcasing erosion, avalanches and ice-melts.

One of them is a case of Bramble Cay Melomy (Melomys Rubicola). Basically a rat / rodent, this is the first mammal to go extinct due to human-indicted climate change.

Its only habitat was a small sandy island in far northern Australia around Eastern Torres Strait of the Great Barrier Reef. It was first seen by Europeans in 1845, and there were several hundred there as of 1978. But since 1998, the part of the island that sits above high tide has shrunk from 9.8 acres to 6.2 acres.

Around the world, sea level has risen by almost eight inches between 1901 and 2010, a rate unparalleled in the last 6,000 years. And around the Torres Strait, sea level has risen at almost twice the global average rate between 1993 and 2014.

Human activity, the consumption of fossil fuels, the acidification of the oceans, pollution, deforestation, and forced migrations threaten life forms of all kinds. We have no idea how many such innocent lives shall be endangered and finally what would happen to homo-sapiens?

We have a small video around it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E68k9Qg904U