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unusual facts about Threatened species


Bawean deer

The Bawean deer, Hyelaphus kuhlii, also known as Kuhl's hog deer or Bawean hog deer, is a highly threatened species of deer found only in the island of Bawean (Gresik Regency) in Indonesia.


Brian Douglas Bell

He worked for the New Zealand Wildlife Service 1957-1987 on the management and conservation of threatened species and was awarded the Queens Service Medal (QSM) in 1984.

Cardamom Hills

The Meghamalai reserve forest, also contiguous with Periyar, is proposed to be the 600 km² Meghamalai Wildlife Sanctuary to protect several threatened species including: Bengal Tiger, Indian Elephant, Nilgiri tahr, lion-tailed macaque, Slender loris, Grizzled Giant Squirrel, Salim Ali's fruit bat, Great Indian Hornbill, Hutton's pitviper and Vindhyan Bob butterfly.

Colville, New Zealand

Just beyond the town is the beginning of the Te Moehau Range, which forms the bulk of the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula, and contains valuable ecological areas, including a population of the threatened North Island Brown Kiwi.

Deen Maar Indigenous Protected Area

It is part of the Yambuk Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of threatened species such as the Orange-bellied Parrot and Hooded Plover.

Hal Scott Regional Preserve and Park

The preserve is home to a few breeding pairs of the threatened Red-cockaded Woodpecker.

Joseph Canyon

The lands currently provide wildlife habitat for two federally listed threatened species, the bald eagle and the Snake River steelhead, and may provide habitat for the threatened lynx, Townsend's Big-eared Bat, and Mountain Quail.

Tehachapi slender salamander

It is considered a threatened species in California, and is found only in isolated areas of the Piute and Tehachapi Mountains of the Transverse Ranges in Southern California.

Traprock Important Bird Area

Other animals found in the IBA that are listed as threatened under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992 include the Border Thick-tailed Gecko and Little Pied Bat.


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APE Foundation

Krabi Province has the last remaining areas of topical lowland forest in Thailand, these richly diverse areas are home to several endangered and threatened species such Bearcat, Rufous-collared Kingfisher and Gurney's Pitta

Archbold Biological Station

The Station supports 19 federally listed threatened species, including the Sand Skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) and 13 endemic plant species.

Assateague Island

The Piping Plover is a threatened species that nests on Assateague.

Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon

The plaintiff argued that the red cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis), an endangered species, and the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), a threatened species, had injured them economically preventing them from conducting commercial business in the forestry industry.

Bear conservation

Although the inclusion of the brown bear as of Least Concern on the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species refers to their global population, the fact is that local populations are increasingly becoming scarcer.

Black Earth Rettenmund Prairie State Natural Area

Several rare species are also found on the site, including pomme-de-prairie, white camas, striped hairstreak, and the state-threatened species rough-stemmed false foxglove (Agalinis gattingeri) and regal fritillary.

Canary rockfish

On October 29, 2007, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from Sam Wright of Olympia, Washington to list a distinct population segment (DPS) of canary rockfish, and four other rockfishes, in Puget Sound, as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act).

Cantabrian brown bear

On an international level, it is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as of Least Concern due to the existence of relatively healthy populations of Brown bears elsewhere.

Cinderella Waxbill

The Cinderella Waxbill (Estrilda thomensis) is a near-threatened species of estrildid finch found in drier regions of south-western Angola around Namibe Province, north and east to south-west Huila Province and north to Fazenda do Cuito in Huambo and extreme north-western Namibia.

Devil's River minnow

When the Devils River Minnows were first classified as threatened in 1999, a group of organizations including the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the City of Del Rio, Texas, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are involved in a Conservation Agreement to assist the minnows’ recovery to the point that it is no longer a threatened species.

Histiotus laephotis

They are a nearly threatened species and almost threatened in Yungas.

Hygrocybe aurantipes

Known only from Lane Cove National Park in Sydney's suburban Lower North Shore, Hazelbrook and Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains, it has been designated as vulnerable as defined by the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, by the New South Wales Government.

IUCN category

IUCN Red List categories, evaluating the imperilment of threatened species (least concern through to extinct)

Nanosaur

The native animals will attack the Nanosaur when their eggs are threatened; species encountered include Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus (who spits like in Jurassic Park), and the flying reptile Pteranodon.

Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge's objectives are to provide nesting, resting, and wintering habitat for migratory birds, including the greater snow geese and other migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, and neotropical migrants, as well as habitat and protection for endangered and threatened species.

Prepona

Prepona deiphile is considered a threatened species in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

Pryingulsky Park

The list of rare and threatened species being under protection of the State includes Southern Festoon (Zerynthia polyxena), Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon), Mammoth Wasp (Scolia maculata), Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa valga), Large Whip Snake (Coluber jugularis), Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus), Stoat or Ermine (Mustela erminea), Steppe Polecat (Mustela eversmanii) etc.

Saving Planet Earth

In the first of nine 30-minute films focussing on particular threatened species, pop star Will Young travels to Cameroon to report on the plight of the lowland gorilla.

Sphagnum palustre

Sphagnum palustre is not on the IUCN red list of threatened species and therefore isn’t considered to be threatened or endangered.

Wharncliffe Crags

These include rare and threatened species, such as nightjar, linnet, viviparous lizard and green tiger beetle.

Wilcherry Hill

Conditions were set in response to the presence of two threatened species within the project area: the Slender-billed Thornbill and the Malleefowl.