The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently released the red list of species in danger of being dying out in 2011. Let's take a look at top five world’s threatened species below including Siau Island tarsier, Chuj climbing salamander, bog turtle, harlequin toad, and Arabian Oryx.
The Siau Island tarsier is an inhabitant of one small Indonesian island. The big-eyed primates is threatened by the active volcano dominated on the Island and could be wiped out soon. This smiling tarsier also face immediate pressure from islanders who have both degraded nearly the entire tarsier habitat and hunted the animals extensively - wiping out perhaps 80 percent during the past decade. "There are credible reports that the locals regularly eat them and may serve five to ten in a single sitting." Miller said.
Siau Island tarsier - more than 80% of the smiling tarsiers has been wiped out in the past decade alone because of a volcano and bush-meat hunters
The bog turtle is a very small but rare turtle in eastern USA and is one of the world’s smallest turtle, squeezing into a 3- to 4.5-inch (7.9 to 11.4 centimeter) shell. Drainage has left these reptiles almost homeless and have dramatically reduced suitable habitat for this and many other species around the globe. It means that they can be disappearing if nothing is done to protect them. In Asia, the bog turtles are used as food thereby further endangering them.
The bog turtle, one of the smallest turtle around the whole world, is in danger of dying out because of wetland development and drainage
The Arabian Oryx. There is only about 6 Arabian Oryx living in the wild in 1972. This rare animal species are facing extinction due to over-hunting
The Chuj climbing salamander is an amphibious creature living in Guatemala. This is an extremely rare species in critically endangered category of the 2011 Red List. This species usually lives in a limited area of hardwood forest, much of which have been extensively damaged by humans seeking firewood and farmland. However, the local authorities are also working hard to look for ways of protecting a remaining stretch of forest where the amphibians still thrive.
The Chuj climbing salamander from Guatemala, is another addition to the critically endangered category of the 2011 Red List
The harlequin toad is inhabited in Peru. This year, there are 19 species of frogs, toads, and salamanders are added to the Red List, of which eight species in the critically endangered list, including this harlequin toad. A new survey carried out in Peru revealed only two members of this amphibian species in 2010.
The harlequin toad
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