Tasnim| Jafari, Asgari, Ahouyi: The Earth, the sole cosmic home to millions of different species, is threatened by the human destructive actions to an extent rarely seen in the planet’s history. With an accelerating trend of burning fossil fuels, polluting the air and the oceans, destroying ecosystems, changing the climate, and endangering vulnerable species and their habitats, a dark future looms on the horizon, not only for us but for the silent inhabitants of the planet.