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WORLD / Africa
Gorillas now 'critically endangered'
(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-13 10:10
The Redheaded Vulture soared from "near threatened" to "critically
endangered." The birds' rapid decline over the last eight years is
largely due to diclofenac, a painkiller given to ill or injured farm
cattle so they can still work. But the substance poisons the vultures
when they scavenge livestock carcasses.
Only 182 breeding adults of the Gharial crocodile remain, down almost 60
percent from a decade ago. India and Nepal's crocodile has become
critically endangered because dams, irrigation projects and artificial
embankments have reduced its habitat to just 2 percent of its former
range.
The woolly-stalked begonia is the only species declared extinct this
year. Extensive searches have failed to uncover any specimens of the
Malaysian herb in the last century, IUCN said.
Only one species moved to a lesser category of threat. One of the world's
rarest parrots 15 years ago, the Mauritius Echo parakeet, eased back from
critically endangered to only endangered. That was a result of close
monitoring of its nesting sites, and supplementary feeding combined with
a captive breeding and release program.
IUCN says 785 species have disappeared over the last 500 years. A further
65 are found only in artificial settings such as zoos.
The Red List, produced by a worldwide network of thousands of experts,
includes some 41,000 species and subspecies around the globe.
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