IUCN Species of the Day: Darwin’s Fox

  Photo credit: Yumil Hussein I.   Darwin’s Fox, Pseudalopex fulvipes, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. This small fox has a disjunct distribution, with one population in the coastal mountains on mainland Continue Reading

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

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

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 these are being fueled by habitat Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Maned Sloth

  Photo credit: Kevin Schafer   The Maned Sloth, Bradypus torquatus, is classified as ‘ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. It is only found in the remaining fragments of the Atlantic Forest of eastern and northeastern Brazil. Continue Reading

Tattoo of the Day

  Tattoo by Jason Goldberg.