IUCN Species of the Day: Burnup’s Hunter Slug

  Photo credit: Dai Hurbert   Burnup’s Hunter Slug, Chlamydephorus burnupi, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

IUCN Species of the Day: Aquatic Tenrec

  Photo credit: Kevin H. Barnes   The Aquatic Tenre, Limnogale mergulus, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

Feathered Extinction: Habitat Loss and Illegal Trade Threaten Doom for Africa’s Parrots, World Parrot Trust Africa to the Rescue!

Originally featured on 17 December, 2011. Parrots have the largest number of threatened species of all bird families. Over 100 of the 332 known parrot species are threatened with extinction in the wild, and the declines of about 78 of Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Pemba Featherleg

Photo credit: Viola Clausnitzer   The Pemba Featherleg, Platycnemis pembipes, is classified as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

IUCN Species of the Day: Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey

Photo credit: Geoff Robinson   The Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey, Rhinopithecus avunculus, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.