It’s a big complex world and we discover new species to science all the time.
“Scientists were startled in 1980 by the discovery of a tremendous diversity of insects in tropical forests.
In one study of just 19 trees in Panama, 80% of the 1,200 beetle species discovered were previously unknown to science …
Surprisingly, scientists have a better understanding of how many stars there are in the galaxy than how many species there are on Earth.”
World Resources Institute (WRI).
So, if we don’t know how much there is to begin with, we don’t know exactly how much we’re losing. But we do have lots of facts and figures that seem to indicate that the news isn’t good.
It Is What It Is 