The Philippine Eagle and the Philippine Eagle Foundation
To this date, the scientific world has examined, named, and classified 1.4 million species. This large number, however, pales to the estimated 5 to 30 million species that have yet to be classified or systematically explored.
The natural rate of extinction is one species per year. Today�s rate is an astounding one per hour. A million species probably could already have been lost with this rate and several more are waiting in line in the next few years.