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Endangered Species

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Websites

FAME: Foundation for Australia’s Most Endangered Species

 

Australian Endangered Species List / Australian Geographic

A comprehensive list of Australia's critically endangered animals

 

a-z Endangered Animals

An encyclopaedia with information on an extensive list of endangered animals.

 

Meet the animals

The website of the Smithsonian National Zoo has conservation information and facts about a wide range of animals.

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Wildscreen: ARKive

Discover and learn about the world’s endangered animals, plants and fungi, what makes them special and why we should protect them.

 

Bagheera

An education website about endangered species and the efforts to save them

 

eSpecies Fact Sheets / KidsPlanet

Fact sheets on over 50 species arranged according to geographic region.

 

Threatened Species / ABC Splash

This website has short videos on a selection of endangered animals, including the Mountain Pygmy possum, Northern Hairy Nose wombat, Siberian tiger and Southern Corroboree frog. Transcripts of the videos are also included.

 

Priority Species / WWF
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is focusing efforts on a select group of priority species that are especially important, either for their ecosystem or for people.

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Rhinoceros / African Wildlife Foundation

 

Giant Pandas no longer ‘endangered.’ / WWF

Thanks to conservation efforts giant pandas have been downgraded from 'endangered' to 'vulnerable' on the global list of species at risk of extinction after their population increased by 17% in a decade.

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Emu bush

A fact sheet produced by the Australian Department of the Environment and Energy

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MAP: The Countries With The Most Threatened Mammals

Print Resources

You will find books on endangered species at 591.6809 in the non-fiction shelves

Videos

Baby panda and mom caught on camera / WWF

Rare: It’s not too late / National Geographic

A video from photographer Joel Sartore‘s Biodiversity Project to promote his book, Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species.

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