The Addax, Addax nasomaculatus, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENFANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. This desert-dwelling antelope was once found across northern Africa, but is now restricted to a much smaller area, in Niger, Chad, and possibly along the border between Mali and Mauritania. The Addax has undergone a [...]
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IUCN Species of the Day: Chacoan Peccary
Photo Credit: Dave Pape The Chacoan Peccary, Catagonus wagneri, is listed as ‘ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The largest peccary species, it is endemic to the dry Chaco of western Paraguay, south-eastern Bolivia and northern Argentina. The decline in this species is mainly due to hunting for its meat [...]
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IUCN Species of the Day, South America
IUCN Species of the Day: Golden Vizcacha Rat
Photo credit: Ruben Barquez The Golden Vizcacha Rat, Pipanacoctomys aureus, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED‘ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Tweet
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Europe, IUCN Species of the Day, Oceans
IUCN Species of the Day: Atlantic Sturgeon
Photo credit: Jean-Francois Hellio and Nicholas Van Ingen The Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED‘ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Tweet
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Introducing the Bush Warriors Rhino Sanctuary In South Africa
Over the last 4 year we have steadily seen the increase in rhino poaching in [...]
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