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Threatened Mammals : Threats Table


THREAT TABLE

MONOTREMATA MARSUPIALA CARNIVORA PINNIPEDIA AFROSORICIDA INSECTIVORA SCANDENTIA MACROSCELIDEA PROBOSCIDEA HYRACOIDEA TUBULIDENTATA ARTIODACTYLA PERISSODACTYLA XENARTHRA PHOLIDOTA LAGOMORPHA RODENTIA CETACEA SIRENIA CHIROPTERA DERMOPTERA PRIMATES

Mammals in danger for CETACEA
LIGHTING
Threat cause
Ancestral hunting. Pollution (noise and industrial). Fishing scarce food

Damage
92 threatened species and subspecies
this represents 16.7 % of Cetacea
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and 4 extinct species since 1900
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NAVIGATION
Specialized Insitut for the protection of species have developed a risk level of threats.
For CETACEA , locate the species and subspecies concerned by risk level and Institut
Level's threatened selection
 
Institut's selection
 
MORE ABOUT
This species are critically endangered !!
Despite the protective measures that are being endangered species, laws are not always respected or enforced. Species declared in danger may disappear forever if stringent measures are not taken quickly. This is the case for these species and subspecies, their population is now very small and in a few decades, they have disappeared in the wild.
PHOTO COMMON NAME
LATIN NAME		 DISTRIBUTION STATUS
Southern Pygmy blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus intermedia		  Southern Hemisphere Ocean (South Pacific, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean)  CITES Appendix I - US ESA : Threatened - IUCN 1996 : Threatened - IUCN 2009 : Critically Endangered   A1abd
Maui Dolphin
Cephalorhynchus hectori maui		  South Pacific, New Zealand, North-west coast of the North Island between New Plymouth and Dargaville.  Critically endangered - IUCN 2009 : Critically Endangered   A4cd,C2a(ii)
Vaquita, cochito
Phocoena sinus		  North Pacific Ocean : warm-temperate waters, northern Gulf of California in Mexico, erroneously reported from the S Gulf of California , including Tres Marias Isls, Nayarit and N Jalisco  CITES - Appendix I, U.S. ESA and IUCN 1996 : Endangered - IUCN 2009 : Critically Endangered   A4d,C2a(ii)
Baiji, White-flag Dolphin, Yangtse Dolphin
Lipotes vexillifer		  East China, Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Qiantang Jiang (mouth of Fuchun Jiang) river systems.  CITES - Appendix I, U.S. ESA and IUCN 1996 : Endangered - IUCN 2009 : Critically Endangered   C2a(ii),D

Submitted by ChB on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 11:23.