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Endangered and Extinct Species

Endangered and Extinct Species . Mariana Calderon. West African Black Rhino. Common name: West African Black Rhino Scientific name: Diceros Bicornis Longipes Habitat: Desserts, grasslands, and forests.

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Endangered and Extinct Species

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  1. Endangered and Extinct Species Mariana Calderon

  2. West African Black Rhino • Common name: West African Black Rhino • Scientific name: DicerosBicornisLongipes • Habitat: Desserts, grasslands, and forests. • Cause of Extinction: Poachers hunted the rhino for its horn, which is believed by some in Yemen and China to possess aphrodisical powers.

  3. Leatherback Turtle • Common name: Leatherback Turtle • Scientific name: DermochelysCoriacea • Habitat: Open waters and costal areas. • Threats: Some of them are taken for their meat, people take their eggs and sell them, overfishing, and pollution. • Approximate population: 34,000 nesting females • Measures to protect it: Protect nesting females turtles and their nests from poachers and predators, sustainable fisheries, projects for cleaning the costal areas.

  4. Panda • Common name: PandaScientific name: AiluropodaMelanoleuca • Habitat: Bamboo forests high in the mountains in Western China. • Threats: Destruction of the habitat, interruption of migration routes, and consumption of their meat. • Approximate population: 1,600 in the wild (2004). • Measures to protect it: Don’t eat or purchase wild meat, protect their habitat, create biological corridors.

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