Report: one-fourth of world species face extinction
· October 6, 2008 · Print This Article
One-fourth of the world’s current species will be wiped out this century, according to this report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
Here’s my top ten list of threatened or endangered Arizona species:
1. lesser long-nosed bat
2. masked bobwhite
3. bald eagle
4. jaguar
5. Sinaloan japuarundi
6. Mexican spotted owl
7. Sonoran pronghorn
8. Cactus pygmy-owl
9. Sonoran tiger salamander
10. Hualapai Mexican vole
And a few that have shuffled off this mortal coil for good (extinct):
California condor
black-footed ferret
Colorado pikeminnow
Woundfin
And let’s not forget the Mexican gray wolf… previously extinct in the wild, by using captive breeding stock, this species was reintroduced to the wild in 1998.
At last count there were 56 wolves still hanging on in the Arizona-New Mexico wilderness.
John Collins Rudolf
(photo credit: Colin Burnett)
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