[The Lone Ranger]

Sadly, he's off by quite a bit.

While it's difficult to know for sure what the true figures are, the UN Environment Programme has compiled various estimates, and figures that 150 - 200 species go extinct every day.


This is estimated to be about 1,000 times the "natural" or "background" rate of extinction.

There have been 5 "mass extinction events" that we know of in the history of life on Earth. Most specialists in biodiversity believe that we're currently in the sixth -- and that this one is almost entirely due to human activities.