Up to 135 U. S. tree species face extinction—and just eight . . . Seventeen species flagged in the study don’t appear in any seed bank or collection, the authors found “If those threatened species disappear from the wild,” Westwood says, “we have no backup ” The U S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) currently lists just eight U S tree species as threatened or endangered
Fauna of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia Artistic representation of the extinct Puerto Rican shrew The richness of mammals in Puerto Rico, like many other islands, is low relative to mainland regions The present-day native terrestrial mammal fauna of Puerto Rico is composed of only 13 species, all of which are bats 18 marine mammals, including manatees, dolphins and whales, occur in Puerto Rican waters [13]
Feral Pigs Going Hog-Wild in US - Live Science Feral pigs can now be found in three-fourths of the U S , and their populations are expanding New Mexico and the USDA recently began a $1 million project to hunt and kill the animals
Conservation zoos have powerful potential to reverse . . . - ZSL The paper also highlights the divide between animal and plant species, with more attention to translocating animals over plants, despite both being equally represented as extinct in the wild; of the 12 species for which wild populations have already been re-established, only two are plants, reflecting the fact that currently only 23% of extinct
Black rhinoceros - WWF In 1993, only 2,475 black rhinos were recorded But thanks to successful conservation and anti-poaching efforts, the total number of black rhinos has grown to around 5,000 The species is currently found in patchy distribution from Kenya down to South Africa
Habitat: the land of the panda - WWF They are also home to hundreds of giant pandas with PingWu county boasting the highest density of wild pandas in the world But the Minshan mountains' magnificent forests are a critical habitat not only for giant pandas but also for a wealth of other species, including the dwarf blue sheep and beautiful multi-coloured pheasants
18 animals that recently went extinct The number of species at risk for extinction clearly shows that we need to work to conserve and protect currently endangered animals before it's too late