How Many Animals Went Extinct In 2024 In India. As many as 733 animals (mostly vertebrates and molluscs) and 110 plant species (flowering plants and lower groups of plants) and one red algae have been extinct or extinct in the wild. Maharaja ramanuj pratap singh deo of korea, madhya pradesh , is widely believed to have killed the last three recorded cheetahs in india in 1947.
The cheetah is the only large carnivore to have gone extinct in india, primarily due to hunting and habitat loss. This post is a detailed list of the critically endangered animal species in india.