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The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a tilt of the " Rarest of the Rare , " a XII brute most in danger of quenching .
The eclectic list includes bird , mammals , Pisces , reptiles , amphibians , and insect . Some are well known , such as the northern proper hulk and Sumatranrhino , while others are more obscure , including Abbot ’s booby , an sea - going chick that only nests on Christmas Island .
Valued for its meat and leather, the addax has declined due to uncontrolled hunting.
The animals were play up today because it is National Endangered Species Day . They are :
Threats to each species vary wide . In the subject of Abbot ’s dummy , the entry of yellow crazy ants to Easter Island has severely altered their nesting habitat . Meanwhile , the addax has been sternly bear on by desertification of its habitat and overhunting . Other species put up from disease , as in the case of the gold pointer poison frog , or poaching for the Chinese medicinal trade , which has reduced the population of Sumatran rhinos to few than 300 individuals .
The 2007 World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) Red List revealed a continuing acclivity in the number of mintage threatened with experimental extinction . Although only a fraction of all plant life and animal species have been evaluated , the act of specie listed as threatened stands at 16,306 , an growth of 188 species since 2006 .
" ' Rarest of the Rare ' is a shot of just a fistful of the most critically endangered coinage that serves to illustrate their quandary and invigorate the public to join the fighting for theircontinued survival of the fittest , " said Kent Redford , director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Institute .
