mariana calderon. common name: west african black rhino scientific name: diceros bicornis longipes...
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Mariana Calderon
Endangered and Extinct Species
Common name: West African Black RhinoScientific name: Diceros Bicornis LongipesHabitat: 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.
West African Black Rhino
Common name: Leatherback TurtleScientific name: Dermochelys Coriacea 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 femalesMeasures to protect it: Protect nesting females
turtles and their nests from poachers and predators, sustainable fisheries, projects for cleaning the costal areas.
Leatherback Turtle
Common name: PandaScientific name: Ailuropoda Melanoleuca
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.
Panda