Extractions: The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own. The WCMC Animals Database holds information on threatened species and others of conservation concern. Part of this database is common to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, and this information is available here in interactive format. This information resource is a result of long-term collaboration between countless individual scientists worldwide and many organisations, notably the Species Survival Commission of IUCN, BirdLife International and WCMC. Database Scientific Name Phylum Class Order Family ... Country Supporting documents Overview Help with search
Threatened Species And Ecological Communities Home Page threatened Species Ecological Communities whose survival is threatened a range of of endangered, vulnerable and extinct for threatened species and critically endangered and http://www.biodiversity.environment.gov.au/threaten
Extractions: Skip Navigation WHAT'S NEW CONTACTS COMMENTS ... SEARCH BIODIVERSITY Go back to: EA Home Biodiversity Threatened Species ... Administrative Guidelines on Significance Australia is home to more than one million species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. About 85 per cent of flowering plants, 84 per cent of mammals, more than 45 per cent of birds, and 89 per cent of inshore, temperate-zone fish are endemic - that is they are only found in Australia. Changes to the landscape and native habitat as a result of human activity has put many of these unique species at risk. Over the last two hundred years many species of plants and animals have become extinct. For the other species of plants and animals whose survival is threatened a range of management and conservation measures are in place. The Commonwealth is working in partnership with state, territory and local governments, non-government organisations, tertiary institutions and community groups to ensure the protection of our native species. The Commonwealth mechanism for national environment protection and biodiversity conservation is the Environment Protection and Biodiveristy Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The EPBC Act provides for:
Kids Corner, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service U.S. Fish Wildlife Service tells how kids and their schools can help conserve endangered species. With games and illustrations. endangered Species. How Can Kids Help? bats may be the most misunderstood animals in the United States Search our site. endangered. Species Program. Home Page http://endangered.fws.gov/kids
Critters | Threatened & Endangered Species threatened endangered Species Navigate Pull Down for Bookmarks Alligator, American Bat, Gray Bat, Indiana Bat, Ozark BigEared Beetle, American Burying Cavefish, Ozark Crayfish, Cave Darter Leopard Eagle, Bald Falcon, American Peregrine http://www.agfc.state.ar.us/critters/endangered_species.html
Extractions: Navigate: Pull Down for Bookmarks Alligator, American Bat, Gray Bat, Indiana Bat, Ozark Big-Eared Beetle, American Burying Cavefish, Ozark Crayfish, Cave Darter,Leopard Eagle, Bald Falcon, American Peregrine Fatmucket, Arkansas Pearlymussel, Curtis Pearlymussel, Pink Mucket Pocketbook, Fat Pocketbook, Ouachita Rock Pocketbook, Speckled Shagreen, Magazine Mountain Sturgeon, Pallid Tern, Least Woodpecker, Red-Cockaded Alligator , American Click Photo for Big Version Species: Alligator mississippiensis Federal Listing: Threatened only by similarity of appearance. Status: Recovered Considering their malevolent image, it's surprising alligators have survived in such good shape as long as they have. Other large North American predators the grizzly bear, wolves, panthers were nearly hunted out by fearful settlers. Alligators were quickly eradicated at the fringes of their range, but in their Deep South heartland, they hung on by the millions until after World War I. Alligators weren't threatened until the fashion industry decided their skins were chic. By the 1920s, 200,000 Florida alligators annually became boots, shoes, wallets, purses, luggage, curios, belts, even clocks. Alligator hides commanded top dollar, and suddenly, Southern marshes were crawling with
Texas Bats Full checklist of 32 species, with links to detailed species accounts.Category Science Biology Animalia Chordata Mammalia Chiroptera Nyctinomops Miller 1902 Big Freetailed bats N. femorosacca 38 Listed on the TexasEndangered Species List Listed on the Texas threatened Species List http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/wild/mammals/txchirop.htm
Extractions: Human disturbance of hibernating Indiana bats by cavers, researchers, and vandals account for most of the species' decline, although deforestation and stream channelization are also factors. The role of contaminants is unclear for the Indiana bat; however, pesticides have been shown to decrease the number of many insectivorous North American bats. Natural threats to this bat include flooding of hibernacula (caves), collapse of hibernacula ceilings, and hypothermia induced by severe winters. Since the 1990 recovery report, the Indiana population of Indiana bats has increased 18 percent. Activities such as educational posting at cave entrances and cave gating have contributed to this population increase. Two formal section 7 interagency consultations have been carried out, one with the Federal Aviation Administration on a major airport expansion project and one with the Soil Conservation Service on a flood control/stream channelization project. Both consultations resulted in no-jeopardy biological opinions, and reasonable and prudent measures suggested by the Fish and Wildlife Service to minimize incidental take were adopted. Recovery needs include protecting hibernacula, protecting and restoring summer nursery habitat, monitoring population trends, educating the public, and continuing research on Indiana bat ecology and biology.
TIP For Endangered And Threatened Species Teacher Idea Packet for endangered and threatened Species A DesertDiscovery Class for Grades 46. The following files are pdf files http://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/tip_endangered.html
Extractions: A Desert Discovery Class for Grades 4-6 T he following files are pdf files. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read them, which can be downloaded free of charge. If you have any trouble downloading the files, please email webmaster@desertmuseum.org or call 520-883-3025. Introduction - includes the following: Pre-Program Activities About the Program
PI-Endangered Species: Mariana Fruit Bat However, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed reclassifying these fruitbats from endangered to threatened status on Guam and establishing threatened http://pacificislands.fws.gov/wesa/marianabatindex.html
Extractions: The Mariana fruit bat ( Pteropus marianus marianus is a medium-sized bat measuring 195 to 250 mm from head to rump, with a wingspan of 860 to 1065 mm. The males are slightly larger than the females. The abdomen and wings are dark brown to black with individual gray hairs intermixed throughout the fur. The mantle and sides of the neck are bright gold on most animals but in some individuals, this region may be pale gold or pale brown. The color of the head varies from brown to dark brown. The Little Mariana fruit bat ( Pteropus tokudae ) is much smaller than the Mariana fruit bat, measuring 140 to 151 mm, with a wingspan of 650 to 709 mm. The abdomen and wings are brown to dark brown but with few whitish hairs. The mantle and sides of the neck vary from brown to pale gold. The top of the head is grayish to yellowish brown while the throat and chin are dark brown.
Bats: Threatened And Misunderstood Night Flyer destroyed by vandals at an Arizona cave. Almost all European bats areendangered or threatened. In Latin America and Israel, hundreds of http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8388/bat.html
Extractions: Perhaps the most misunderstood and feared animal, the bat is vitally important to our ecosystem. They are predators of nocturnal insects, pollinators of flowers, and dispersers of plants by scattering their seeds. Because of myth and superstition, they also are among the world's most endangered animals. Some of the better known myths are: Bats will attack you.
> ENDANGERED SPECIES IN THE HOLNAM/ST bats help keep the ecosystem healthy. Amazingly, Holnam's consultants found nothreatened or endangered species on this huge tract of land. http://www.moenviron.org/ENDANGERED SPECIES IN THE HOLNAM 2- Charles Philips.htm
Extractions: By Charles Phillips Endangered Species Coalition The proposed Holnam/St. Lee's Island cement plant in St. Genevieve county 45 miles south of St. Louis could become the largest cement-processing plant in the world. Located on 4,000 acres in the Bricky Hills, it lies adjacent to the Mississippi River and Isle du Bois Creek. This area contains the largest block of entire valley is flooded creating a major backwater fish breeding ground. The Beagles Island Heron Rookery is located directly across the Mississippi River from the site. Great blue herons commonly feed in Isle du Bois Creek. The locals will tell you the fishing was always good in the spring-fed Isle du Bois Creek. In this part of Missouri, the caves provide habitat for endangered gray bats and the more endangered Indiana bats and include maternity caves for female Indiana bats. In the spring, the bats migrate from the hibernacula in the Ozark Mountains and come to maternity caves to bear their young. They suckle the juvenile bats until fall when they are strong enough to fly with the adult females. They then return to the hibernacula in the Ozarks where they mate during the winter. Many bats do not survive. Many of the young die on the floor of the cave as a result of falling off of the cave wall. Many more are killed by cars, pesticides, and vandalism.
Extractions: Threatened Species - Other News Three Endangered Ecological Communities Listed September: Three ecological communities have been listed on the Commonwealth Endangered Species Protection Act (ESPA): Grassy White Box Woodlands, Buloke Woodlands of the Riverina and Murray Darling and the Semi-Evergreen Vine Thickets of NSW. This brings the total number of listed ecological communities to five. The Grassy Whitebox Woodland of NSW are home to the nationally endangered Swift Parrot, Regent Honeyeater and Superb Parrot. It is estimated that less than 400 hectares currently survive in a relatively modified condition. Similarly, only remnant pockets remain of the Buloke Woodlands - an important source of food for the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. The semi-evergreen vine thickets of the Brigalow Belt are home to a range of rare plant and animal species around Warialda, Gunnedah and Bingara in northern NSW, with less than 3,000 hectares remaining. All three communities were nominated under Schedule 2 of the Act, which provides for the listing of endangered ecological communities.
Squirrels And Bats Sue Logger! Squirrels and bats sue logger Blackwater Canyon will harm three federally listed endangeredspeciesthe Virginia bigeared batand one threatened speciesthe http://www.888webtoday.com/green3.html
Dr. Micheal Harvey Area of Specialization. Ecology, distribution, status, and management of endangeredand threatened vertebrates, especially bats and other mammals. Education. http://www.tntech.edu/evs/Faculty/Harvey.htm
Extractions: Department of Biology Research Interests Area of Specialization Ecology, distribution, status, and management of endangered and threatened vertebrates, especially bats and other mammals. Education Ph.D. University of Kentucky - 1967 - Vertebrate Zoology M.A. Stephen F. Austin State University - 1962 - Zoology B.S., Eastern Illinois University, Botany Experience 2000-Pres. Professor Emeritus/Senior Affiliate Faculty, Tennessee Technological University 1998-00 Professor, Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University 1985-98 Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University 1966-1985, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Memphis State University. Recent Publications Harvey, M.J., and D. A. Saugey, 2001. Bats in Wildlife of southern forests; habitat and management (J. G. Dickson, ed.). In Press. Harvey, M.J., 2001. Status and ecology of the Indiana Bat, Mytosis sodalis , in the southern United States. in Proc. Symposium: The Indiana Bat: Biology and Management of an Endangered Species. In Press.
Extractions: T his section focuses on a specific vertebrate group: MAMMALS. The publications listed below are not available from the Smithsonian Institution. They can be obtained from most large public libraries or can be requested through an interlibrary loan. Many are currently in print and can be ordered from local bookstores. Ackerman, D. Allen, D. Allen, G.M. Arnold, C.
Documentation Of Forest Service Abuses In The Elk Mtn. Timber Sale federal listing and increasing protection of their wintering caves, Indiana Batshave continued All of the rare, endangered and threatened species referred http://www.spies.com/~gus/forests/vfw/inspect.html
Extractions: Dear Mr. Martin: The following is a documentation of abuses and violations of laws and regulations by the U.S. Forest Service in the matter of the Environmental Assessment for the proposed Elk Mtn. Timber Sale in the Marlinton District of the Monongahela National Forest. Individuals responsible for these violations are Cynthia Schiffer, District Ranger and Floyd J. Marita, Regional Forester. Specifically the abuses and violations involve 1) failure to survey the proposed timber sale area for Endangered, Threatened and Sensitive Species, 2) failure to consult with the State Natural Heritage and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 3) basing decisions not on field surveys but on "likelihood of occurrence tables," 4) improperly designed and faulty research in other areas as justification for decisions made. The Biological Evaluation for the Elk Mtn. Timber Sale mentions 9 Endangered, 2 Threatened and 56 Sensitive species. Unfortunately this listing is only lip service and virtually all are dismissed as 1) extirpated, 2) area being outside known range, 3) lack of suitable habitat and 4) "not known from project area." Only three species, a cave isopod, a cave snail and the Green Floater are mentioned as "likely to occur" in the project area. Most pertinent here is category 4) since species can not be "known from the project area" if no surveys for them are done!
Wildernet - Alabama Wildlife Refuges Over a million gray bats hibernate in Fern Cave, as do several hundred endangeredIndiana bats. Fern Cave also has the threatened American hart's tongue fern http://areas.wildernet.com/pages/area.cfm?areaID=ALWILDLIFE&CU_ID=1
A Prickly Problem The endangered Species Act protects endangered or threatened animals from beingkilled or taken on private property but does not provide the same protection http://www.npca.org/magazine/2001/january_february/rare_and_endangered.asp
Extractions: C OMBIN E AN ONSLAUGHT of deadly beetles, human plant poachers, and grazing cattle. Add periodic drought and an absence of federal protection on private lands, and the threats against the Wright fishhook cactus make it a primary example of the pressures facing many endangered plants in the West. Scientists estimate that between 50,000 to 100,000 Wright fishhook cacti remain in a two-county area of southern Utah, including a small section of Capitol Reef National Park. Standard adults grow six to nine centimeters in diameter, are low to the ground, and produce a small white to pale-pink flower in the spring. To its advantage and unlike many cacti, the Wright fishhook grows in many types of desert soil and throughout much of the ecosystem's lower elevations. Despite its adaptability, the cactus' mortality rate exceeds reproduction by two-and-a-half to one, says Ron Kass, a plant ecologist who monitors the plant for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In the seven years that Kass has monitored BLM plots east of Capitol Reef, he has recorded nearly a 67 percent population decline.
Bats Eight of the 16 bat species in BC are currently listed as potentially endangeredor threatened. bats eat tonnes of insects per year and are therefore http://www.direct.ca/pestpage/bats1.html
Extractions: Bats (Order - Chiroptera ) are the only mammals capable of "true" flight. They are nocturnal feeders and locate their prey - small to medium sized insects - by echolocation. Bats consume vast amounts of insects making them very effective pest control agents. They may eat as much as their weight in insects per day. More information on bats below. Range Habitat Conservation Bats Houses ... References Out of the 39 known families world wide, 4 occur in North America. Bats are probably exceeded only by rodents as the most numerous mammals on earth. Return to the top of this page, or back to the home page. Social bats may roost in caves, buildings, hollow trees, animal burrows, abandoned mines and other protected areas, while solitary bats may live among leaves or under the bark of trees, rock crevices and other suitable spaces. In winter some bat species migrate to warmer climates up to 1000 miles away to feed; others hibernate in the regions of their summer roosts. There are three general types of bat gathering places: day roosts, night roosts and hibernacula. Maturnity roost comprised of only females, may be found in; i.e. buildings or mine shafts with temperatures up to 40 degrees celsius and a high percentage of humidity to ensure rapid growth in the young. Female bats give birth to only one or two young annually and roost in small or large numbers. Males may live singly or in small groups but scientists are still unsure of the whereabouts of most males in summer.
Agency Of Natural Resources - Bibliography bats. Scripted slide program. Bluebirds. Scripted slide program. Endangeredand threatened Species and Rare Natural Communities of Vermont. http://www.state.vt.us/anr/anr/bibfw.htm
Today's Horse - The Benefits Of Bats states to have a bat as a pet and a federal offense to possess a threatened or endangeredbat species. Please realize that wild animals, including bats, do not http://www.todayshorse.com/Articles/Barn/Bats.HTM
Extractions: Bats Bats hang upside down easily with locking feet. What do we do? All too commonly, we get out the bug repellent chemical sprays and douse ourselves, but what are we really doing to lessen the numbers of mosquitoes? Not much. The same goes for our horses. We can spray them down, but the mosquitoes just bite someone else. So how can we fight back? Try bats. For centuries these helpful creatures have been BATtling for acceptance, thanks to old wives' tales and entertainment wizards who have created a horrific and distorted bat image that may never die. So to set the record straight, let's look at the facts about bats to realize why they can be good friends to our horses, and to all of us. Bats are the ONLY flying mammal ('flying' squirrels technically glide), so are placed in their own order - Chiroptera, Greek for hand-wing. The delicate, translucent wing of a bat is like a modified, webbed, long-fingered hand. Most bats roost (rest and sleep) hanging upside down by their automatically locking hind feet, which hold them firmly in place. Some hibernate. Bats can use their legs to walk, but cannot jump up and take off in flight from the ground; they must drop from a reasonable height to get started. (If you find a bat walking on the ground, don't try to shoo it to take off, because it can't.)Bat wings are delicately thin and translucent.
