IUCN Species of the Day: Ili Pika
Photo credit: Li Weidong The Ili Pika, Ochotona iliensis, is listed as ‘ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM.
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IUCN Species of the Day: White-Shouldered Ibis
Photo credit: Jonathon C. Eames The White-shouldered Ibis, Pseudibis davisoni, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. Having suffered dramatic declines over much of its former range during the course of the Continue Reading
IUCN Species of the Day: Pygmy Hog
Photo credit: Joe Blosson Once widely distributed across the alluvial grassland plains in the Himalayan foothills, the Pygmy Hog, Porcula salvania, declined so severely that by the 1960s it was presumed extinct. Today, one small wild population Continue Reading