This is one of hundreds of species that will be wiped out thanks to human-caused global warming.

A green carpenter bee. 

Wall Street Journal

Scientists fear destruction of some populations, alongside an estimated billion animal deaths.

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Some scientists are concerned about a metallic-green bee that lives exclusively in areas that have been ravaged by fire, along Australia’s east coast and on Kangaroo Island in the south. Researchers suspect the green carpenter bee has been wiped out on Kangaroo Island.

“The species is likely to be in dire straits, as all of its habitat has now either burnt or is threatened by fire,” said Katja Hogendoorn, a bee expert at the University of Adelaide, who has been working for half a decade to preserve the population of green carpenter bees on Kangaroo Island.