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Categories. Category Ia – strict nature reserve. Category Ib – wilderness area. Category II – national park. Category III – natural monument or feature. Category IV – habitat or species management area. Category V – protected landscape or seascape. Category VI – protected area with sustainable use of natural resources.
Orinoco crocodile. The Orinoco crocodile ( Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered crocodile. Its population is very small, and they can only be found in the Orinoco river basin in Venezuela and Colombia. Extensively hunted for their skins in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is one of the most endangered species of crocodiles.
Dabry's sturgeon ( Acipenser dabryanus) Banded allotoca ( Allotoca goslinei) Potosi pupfish ( Cyprinodon alvarezi) La Palma pupfish ( Cyprinodon longidorsalis) Charco Palma pupfish ( Cyprinodon veronicae) Ameca shiner ( Notropis amecae) Kunimasu ( Oncorhynchus kawamurae) Golden skiffia ( Skiffia francesae) Beloribitsa ( Stenodus leucichthys)
SafeNet, Inc. SafeNet, Inc. was an information security company based in Belcamp, Maryland, United States, which was acquired in August 2014 by the French security company Gemalto. Gemalto was, in turn, acquired by Thales Group in 2019. The former SafeNet's products include solutions for enterprise authentication, data encryption, and key ...
Caprimulgus vociferus Wilson, 1812. The eastern whip-poor-will ( Antrostomus vociferus; also called "whip-o-will", "whip o' will", etc.) is a medium-sized (22–27 cm or 8.7–10.6 in) bird within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, from North America. The whip-poor-will is commonly heard within its range, but less often seen because of its ...
Endangered species, as classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), are species which have been categorized as very likely to become extinct in their known native ranges in the near future. On the IUCN Red List, endangered is the second-most severe conservation status for wild populations in the IUCN's schema after ...
Description. Cedrus atlantica foliage and mature female cone. Male cones beginning to shed pollen. Fully grown, Atlas cedar is a large coniferous evergreen tree, 30 to 35 m (98 to 115 ft) (rarely 40 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of 1.5 to 2 m (4.9 to 6.6 ft). It is very similar in all characters to the other varieties of Lebanon cedar ...
The wild Bactrian camel ( Camelus ferus) is a critically endangered species of camel living in parts of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. It is closely related but not ancestral to the domestic Bactrian camel ( Camelus bactrianus ). Genetic studies have established it as a separate species which diverged from the Bactrian camel ...