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IUCN Species of the Day: European Eel

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  Photo credit: Biopix.dk: N Sloth   The European Eel, Anguilla anguilla, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.  It spends most of its life in European rivers which flow into the Atlantic, Mediterranean Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Amami Rabbit

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    Photo credit: Futoshi Hamada   The Amami Rabbit, Pentalagus furnessi, is listed as ‘ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Having evolved in isolation on two small Japanese islands lacking mammalian predators, this heavy-bodied species has Continue Reading