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2 unusual facts about endangered species


Beluga caviar

The Beluga sturgeon is currently considered to be critically endangered, causing the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to ban in 2005 the importation of Beluga caviar which originated in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basin.

Sergio Missana

In 2007, he co-wrote the award-winning animated TV series for children Chilian Geografic, which raised awareness of Chilean endangered animal species.


Blaquesmith

It is not known if Blaquesmith retained his mutant powers after the M-Day, though Endangered Species reveals that mutants belonging to alternate timelines, such as Cable, were not depowered.

Block Island National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge also provides habitat for the Endangered American Burying Beetle, supporting the only population of this species known east of the Mississippi River.

Cave and Basin National Historic Site

Cave and Basin hot springs are also notable as the habitat for the Banff Springs snail, listed as an endangered species in 2000 by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

Dark Beast

Dark Beast returns and finally confronts his counterpart in the Endangered Species storyline where he ambushes him in Neverland, the extermination camp ran by Weapon X, to offer his services regarding finding a cure for M-Day.

Deep Creek Hot Springs

The Southwestern Arroyo Toad—Bufo californicus, an endangered species, lives along Deep Creek.

Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge is an important staging area for migratory birds, and is used as well for the management and study of endangered species such as the Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle and Piping Plover.

Eiao Island Nature Reserve

The reserve is the primary nesting site of several endangered species, several of which are endemic, including the Eiao Marquesan Warbler (Acrocephalus mendanae aquilonis) and the Iphis Monarch (Pomarea iphis).

Gabela, Angola

The Gabela Akalat (Sheppardia gabela), a species of bird, was first recorded here by scientists and subsequently named after the town, as were the Gabela Helmet-shrike (Prionops gabela) and Gabela Bush-shrike (Laniarius amboimensis); these endangered species are only found in the uplands near Gabela.

Geography of Guinea-Bissau

:* Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Wetlands

Geography of Liberia

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands

Geography of Zambia

Zambia is party to the following international agreements: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection and Wetlands.

Hatutu Nature Reserve

The reserve was declared in 1992, and is the primary nesting site of several endangered species, several of which are endemic, including the Hatutu Marquesan Warbler (Acrocephalus mendanae postremus) and the Marquesas Ground Dove (Gallicolumba rubescens).

Hydrological transport model

Use of the model has specifically been conducted to analyze survival of two endangered species found in the Truckee River and Pyramid Lake: the Cui-ui sucker fish and the Lahontan cutthroat trout.

International Carnivorous Plant Society

With only an estimated 15 plants remaining in the wild as of 1995, Nepenthes clipeata is the most endangered of all known tropical pitcher plants.

Interstate 781

In April 2009, project engineers discovered that Indiana bats—an endangered species of bat—live in the area in and surrounding the proposed right-of-way of the Fort Drum Connector (I-781).

Jay Westerveld

Jay Westerveld (also spelled Westervelt and Westerveldt) is a researcher of habitats associated with endangered species including the Clam shrimp, Bog turtle, and the Northern Cricket frog.

Kleercut

The Kleercut campaign claims that Kimberly-Clark support the clearcutting of such forests in Canada and the United States, including forests habitat for wolverine and threatened wildlife the woodland caribou.

Komati River

The Komati Gorge is situated in the upper reaches of the Komati River and is the habitat of some endangered species such as the Southern Bald Ibis.

New England Adolescent Research Institute

The project is working closely with regulators to avoid harming any endangered species native to the Holyoke Range, such as the Marbled Salamander.

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.

Platte River caddisfly

Following a 12-month assessment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2012 determined the Platte River caddisfly was not suited to be listed as an endangered species.

Psocoptera

No member of this order is currently considered endangered; in fact, in 2007, Atlantopsocus adustus, a species native to Madeira and the Canary Islands, was found to have colonized the mild Cornish coast of southwest England.

Ptychochromis inornatus

Ptychochromis inornatus is an endangered species of cichlid endemic to the Ankofia River basin and its tribuaries in the eastern part of the Mahajanga Province in Madagascar.

Sahel

The larger species have been greatly reduced in number by over-hunting and competition with livestock, and several species are vulnerable (Dorcas gazelle and red-fronted gazelle), endangered (Dama gazelle, African wild dog, cheetah, lion), or extinct (the Scimitar-horned oryx is probably extinct in the wild, and both Pelorovis and the Bubal Hartebeest are now extinct.

Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani

Al Thani founded the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), a private conservation and endangered species breeding center in Qatar, which focuses on breeding and preservation of rare bird species, particularly the Spix's Macaw.

Schiedea verticillata

Schiedea verticillata, known as the Nihoa Carnation, is an endangered species of carnation, endemic to the island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition.

Tahr

While the Arabian Tahr of Oman and the Nilgiri Tahr of South India both have small ranges and are considered endangered, the Himalayan Tahr remains relatively widespread in the Himalayas, and has been introduced to the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

Tekoa Mountain

The mountain is also the habitat of the New England cottontail, a species in decline in Massachusetts, as well as a state endangered species which is not identified here due to problems with poaching for sale.

World War Hulk: X-Men

On a side note, this part of the World War Hulk storyline took place before, during, and after Endangered Species.


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Ambrosia cheiranthifolia

This plant sometimes occurs alongside slender rush-pea (Hoffmannseggia tenella), another endangered species.

Annie Harvilicz

She assisted with critical research on Giant Pandas including work on panda breeding at the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (now called the Institute for Conservation Research), a research arm of the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Ashtamudi Lake

Ashtamudi Estuary has mangroves Avicennia officinalis, Brugiera gymnorrhiza and Sonneratia caseolaris as also 43 species of marshy and mangrove associates including two endangered species Syzygium travancoricum (endangered species according to the Red Data Book of Indian Plants) and Calamus rotang in the Terrestrial system.

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.

Bornean white-bearded gibbon

The Bornean white-bearded gibbon, (Hylobates albibarbis), also known as the Bornean agile gibbon or southern gibbon, is an endangered species of gibbon endemic to southern Borneo, between the Kapuas and Barito rivers.

Bruce Babbitt

Babbitt wrote a book in 2005 titled Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America, where he proposes to amend the Endangered Species Act so that it is used to identify, conserve, and protect landscapes, watersheds, and ecosystems whether or not an endangered species exists there.

Buddleja ibarrensis

Buddleja ibarrensis is an endangered species endemic to a small area of Ecuador in the vicinity of Ibarra in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest at an elevation of 2,200 m threatened by deforestation.

Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve

Prairie dock and spiked blazing star are also unusually abundant at this site, as well as eleven state-endangered species, including Blue False Indigo.

Cistanche

Cistanche deserticola has been placed on CITES Appendix 2, a list of endangered species not banned from trade but requiring monitoring.

Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory

By treaty, the forensics laboratory is also the official crime lab for CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) and the Wildlife Group of Interpol.

Crocodylus novaeguineae

It is included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Eckbachweiher

The Eckbachweiher is known to biologists as a Rückzugsgebiet for native dragonflys and also offers a habitat for endangered species, like the Hairy Dragonfly (Brachytron pratense).

Endangered Species Act

President Richard Nixon declared current species conservation efforts to be inadequate and called on the 93rd United States Congress to pass comprehensive endangered species legislation.

Federal Horticultural Show 2011

In this field, there was a forest of orchids, abandoned vineyards, an arid biotope, old orchards and gardens, rare species of bats and habitats for endangered species at the edges of the slope.

Giant golden mole

The giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) is an endangered species of golden mole whose natural habit is the forests of Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.

Golden-cheeked Warbler

The Golden-cheeked Warbler also known as the gold finch of Texas(Setophaga chrysoparia) is an endangered species of bird that breeds in Central Texas, from Palo Pinto County southwestward along the eastern and southern edge of the Edwards Plateau to Kinney County.

Headless men

Gene Wolfe writes of a man with his face on his chest, located in his short story collection Endangered Species.

Hoodia

Hoodia is currently listed in Appendix II to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which includes species not currently considered endangered but are at risk if trade is not controlled.

Huntlee, New South Wales

Local environmentalists had protested that development of the site would threaten surviving pockets of the endangered species Persoonia pauciflora.

Illinois Caverns State Natural Area

Illinois Caverns is home to the federal endangered species Gammarus acherondytes (a.k.a. Illinois Cave Amphipod).

International parrot trade

Several True Parrots from the Ara genus (Great Green Macaw, Blue-throated Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Military Macaw), are all protected under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Ironwood Ridge High School

As the school district applied for the permit, the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl was listed as an "endangered species" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by the FWS in 1997.

Jemez Mountains

The Jemez Mountains are home to a federally endangered species, the Jemez Mountains salamander.

Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge

In an effort to purchase private land and help to protect habitat for the Bald Eagle, 7-Eleven Food Stores and the National Wildlife Federation worked out a deal in which proceeds from the sale of endangered species drinking cups sold at 7-Eleven stores, was donated to the National Wildlife Federation.

Koksar

However, over-hunting and a decrease in food supplies has led to a large decrease in the population of the Tibetan Antelope, Argali, Kiangs, Musk deer, and Snow leopards in these regions, reducing them to the status of endangered species.

Live rock

As of August 4, 2008 CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) banned the collection of live rock from Tonga, the Marshall Islands, and the Cook Islands.

Long-tailed Meadowlark

The Long-tailed Meadowlark (Sturnella loyca) is a passerine bird of southern South America and the Falkland Islands, belonging to the meadowlark genus Sturnella in the icterid family that looks very similar to the related endangered species Pampas Meadowlark.

Los Vaqueros Reservoir

The watershed is currently home for many rare, threatened and endangered species including fairy shrimp, bald and golden eagles, Alameda whipsnake, western pond turtle, California tiger salamander, California red-legged frog, San Joaquin kit fox, and the San Francisco dusky-footed wood rat.

Mark Carwardine

The series not only updated the situation with most of the endangered species featured in the original series but looked at some new ones, including the blue whale in Baja California, Mexico.

Mauritian Wildlife Foundation

The conservation work in Mauritius began as a species orientated program concentrating on a few critically endangered species, including the Mauritius Kestrel and the Pink Pigeon.

Native plant

As a result, the El Segundo blue butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni) became an endangered species.

Parides hahneli

It is endemic to Brazil in the states of Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Amazonas, and Pará, where it was placed on the list of endangered species in 2008.The butterfly was named to honour it's collector Paul Hahnel.

Parides klagesi

Because of the prior CITES listing and apparent rarity, this species was placed in the endangered species list for the northern Brazilian state of Pará.

Phillip Oppenheim

As a Treasury minister, he toughened restrictions on imports of endangered species and introduced tax breaks on less-polluting fuels including LPG.

Pinanga andamanensis

Pinanga andamanensis is one of the critically endangered species of endemic palms reported from the Andaman Islands.

Pycnanthemum incanum

It is listed as an endangered species in Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as in Ontario, where there are only two remaining populations located within a single stretch of oak savanna in Burlington.

Rock shelter

The Cumberland stitchwort (Minuartia cumberlandensis) is an endangered species of plant which is found only in rock shelters in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Ronnie Lupe

This event also led to the passage of the Joint Secretarial Order 3206, known as the American Indian Tribal Rights, Federal-Tribal Trust Responsibilities, and the Endangered Species Act in 1997, which concluded that "the federal government's responsibilities under the Endangered Species Act, recognizes the exercise of tribal rights, and ensures that Indian tribes do not bear a disproportionate burden for the conservation of listed species".

Salinity in Australia

Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita, commonly known as the Remote Thorny Lignum, is a critically endangered species due to its intolerance to salinity.

São Marcos da Ataboeira

The area of the parish belongs to the SPA - Special Protection Area, for endangered species of steppe birds such as the Great Bustard and Lesser Kestrel.

Satpura Range

These forest enclaves provide habitat to several at risk and endangered species, including the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris), gaur (Bos gaurus), dhole (Cuon alpinus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra).

Sikhote-Alin

In 2001, UNESCO placed Sikhote-Alin onto the World Heritage List, citing its importance for "the survival of endangered species such as the scaly-sided (Chinese) merganser, Blakiston’s fish-owl and the Amur tiger."

Southern Cone

Araucaria angustifolia, once widespread in Southern Brazil, is now a critically endangered species, protected by law.

Spaulding School Building

Today, the first and second floor reception foyers feature the school's original wainscoting made of American chestnut, now an endangered species.

Swietenia

As a timber, both Swietenia macrophylla and Swietenia mahogoni are both grown in plantations in several Asian countries such as Fiji, Indonesia, India, and Bangladesh and this plantation mahogany timber is the main source of the world's current supply of "genuine mahogany", due to cultivation and trade of it in its native locations being restricted by the Convention On International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna CITES since the late 1990s.

Ternstroemia bullata

It is a critically endangered species with only two remaining individuals known, both in Clarendon Parish.

Ukok Plateau

Other endangered species protected there include the argali mountain sheep, the steppe eagle, and the Black Stork.

Vettangudi Bird Sanctuary

It has also attracted indigenous endangered species including Painted Stork, Grey Heron, Darter, Little Cormorant, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Cattle Egret, Common Teal, Spotbills, pintail, and flamingos.

Wildscreen

Over the years since then the festival has significantly expanded its scale and content and the charity has also enlarged its remit, including by launching ARKive, a centralised collection of films and photographs of endangered species which can be accessed free of charge through an award-winning website.