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Posts Tagged ‘critically endangered species’
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, May 5th, 2010,
This little bird is a type of hummingbird and part of the Trochilidae family. It’s only found in Honduras and is currently listed as a Critically Endangered species. Relatively small in size and mostly green in color, Honduran Emeralds live in the arid interior valleys of Honduras. Their range has included Yoro, Olanchito, the Agalta valley, and Valle de Telica. Surveys conducted in late 2008 also found the bird sparsely throughout 6 sections of forest in the Santa Barbara department. Although they choose scrub and thorn-forests as their home, their habitat is severely under threat. Most of the thorn-forest area…
Tags: bird, Creature Feature, critically endangered species, Honduran Emerald, hummingbird, spotlight
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 24th, 2010,
For a bit of good news in the Asian animal kingdom, there might be a new member of the Sumatran Rhinoceros family! A camera set up in Borneo captured a picture of a female rhino on February 25th of this year. Given the size of the rhino, it is very possible that she may have been pregnant at the time. The image is the first ever to be taken of a wild female Sumatran Rhinoceros thought to be pregnant. Raymond Alfred of WWF commented that “the size [of the rhino] is quite extraordinary. Based on the shape and the size…
Tags: Asia, borneo, critically endangered species, pregnant mother, rhino, Sumatran Rhinoceros, video, WWF
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 9th, 2010,
Last year, I went on a journey through Arizona. One of the places I visited was the Grand Canyon. While there, I learned about the California Condor and was actually fortunate enough to see a few of them in flight. It was an awesome experience. If you are unfamiliar with the California Condor: it is the largest North American land bird, a critically endangered species, and the only living animal of the genus Gymnogyps. California Condors can live up to 50 years; however, extensive poaching, lead poison and habitat destruction brought the California Condor species to near extinction. In 1987,…
Tags: birth, California Condor, critically endangered species, hatching, largest bird in America, Nature
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 24th, 2010,
Have you ever seen a Siberian Crane? It’s an absolutely beautiful bird. Unfortunately, it’s also a critically endangered bird. The Siberian Crane is a migratory bird. It travels about 3,100 miles (5,000 km) every year from northern Siberia to either China or Iran. Much of the wetlands along its migration route are being drained for farming. There is also an issue with China’s Three Gorges Dam, where 98% of the remaining Siberian Cranes go for winter. Their wintering area near the dam is threatened by water development projects. The good news is a few nations want to do something to…
Tags: critically endangered species, migratory routes, Nature, Siberian Crane, wetlands
Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 8th, 2010,
Some opportunities come once in a lifetime and when they appear, it may be wise to take advantage of them before they pass you by. If you haven’t seen it yet, I would like to present to you the opportunity to view a real wild treasure: A Sumatran Tiger and her cubs in the jungle. Photos of the tiger and cubs were captured in July 2009 through still camera traps. Unfortunately, these photos were rather blurry and researchers couldn’t tell exactly how many cubs there were. So, they proceeded to set up 4 video camera traps throughout the Rimbang Baling…
Tags: critically endangered species, Indonesia, mom and cubs, Nature, rare video, Sumatra, Sumatran tiger, WWF
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Dec 12th, 2009,
Mexican Gray Wolves are in trouble—and more than they should be at this point. Ten years ago, the federal government started to return this endangered canine to its Southwestern home. Unfortunately for the wolves, it hasn’t been working out. Their clash with local ranchers has gotten particularly out of control. Throughout the last decade, four ranches went out of business and four more are expected to by next summer. The southwest has been hit by severe droughts, ridiculous cattle prices and some nasty wildfires over the last 10 years. The wolves have also been blamed for killing hundreds of livestock…
Tags: critically endangered species, Mexican Gray Wolf, wolf reintroduction program, wolves
