Photo credit: Dai Hurbert
Burnup’s Hunter Slug, Chlamydephorus burnupi, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Continue reading
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IUCN Species of the Day: Burnup’s Hunter Slug
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day with tags Africa, agriculture, animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animals, animals blog, Biodiversity., Burnup's Hunter Slug, Chlamydephorus burnupi, Community, Conservation, Current Events, deforestation, Drakensberg, Drakensberg foothills, Education, Endangered Species, endemic invertebrates, endemic slugs, endemic species, Environment, Extinction, forest habitat, forest invertebrates, forests, garden pests, habitat degradation, habitat loss, illegal, illegal timber harvesting, invasive plants, invasive species, killing, KwaZulu-Natal, leaf litter dweller, livestock, midlands, mist-belt Podocarpus forests, montane Podocarpus forests, Nature, overgrazing, pill millipedes, poaching, predatory slug, slugs, Society, South Africa, South African forests, threatened invertebrates, threatened slugs, timber extraction, vulnerable, wild fire, wildfire, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog on September 9, 2011 by Bush WarriorsIUCN Species of the Day: Tahiti Monarch
Posted in IUCN Species of the Day with tags animal blog, animal blogs, Animal Rights, Animals, animals blog, Anti Poaching, Biodiversity., birds, black rat, botanical pest, captive breeding programme, Common Myna, Community, Conservation, critically endangered, critically endangered birds, Current Events, Education, endangered birds, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, habitat loss, hurricanes, introduced bird species, introduced birds, introduced predators, introduced species, invasive plants, Miconia calvescens, natural disasters, Nature, poaching, Pomarea nigra, rat control, Red-vented Bulbul, stop poaching, Tahiti, Tahiti Monarch, wildlife, wildlife blog, wildlife blogs, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation blog on July 11, 2011 by Bush Warriors
Photo credit: Ron Hoff
The Tahiti Monarch, Pomarea nigra, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Restricted to the west coast of Tahiti, this small flycatcher numbers fewer than 50 individuals – just 23 were counted in 2009. Continue reading
