What will it take for conservation efforts to be on the front page of the news, to be a regularly trending hashtag, to be a government spending priority?
Animals are threatened due to mostly human-caused factors: deforestation and habitat loss, poaching and overfishing, pollution, climate change, development, and rising temperatures. To protect species loss, their habitats need to be protected. The Amazon Rainforest is home to about three million plant and animal species but since 1970 over 700,000 square km of the forest has disappeared. What will it take for conservation efforts to be on the front page of the news, to be a regularly trending hashtag, to be a government spending priority? The following data visualization aims to tell the story of threatened species in a way that will convey the need for increased environmental conservation.