why is the saola endangered?
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Saola is threatened primarily by hunting, rather than habitat loss. The main hunting threat comes from commercial poaching, not subsistence hunting by local people.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the conservation status of wild animals and plants, announced Thursday that Masai giraffes, a subspecies spread throughout Kenya and Tanzania, are now endangered, primarily because of poaching and changes in land use.
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Population & Distribution No formal surveys have been undertaken to determine accurate population numbers, but IUCN estimates the total saola population to be less than 750, likely to be much less. Saola are distributed in scattered locations in the Annamites, along the northwest-southeast Vietnam - Lao border.
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Since the 1970s, the numbers of eels reaching Europe is thought to have declined by about 90%. Today they are protected as an endangered species by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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The giant ibis is considered to be Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The primary causes seem to be drainage of wetlands for cultivation and the epidemic clear-cutting of forest for rubber, cassava, wood pulp and teak plantations in south-east Asia. Habitats may also face ravaging due to local human warfare.
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An endangered species is a type of organism that is threatened by extinction. Species become endangered for two main reasons: loss of habitat and loss of genetic variation.
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Protected by the Endangered Species Act, the Asian arowana is nearly depleted from the wild. In 1975, 183 countries signed a treaty classifying it as a rare species and banning the fish from international trade. To this day, it cannot legally be brought into the United States.
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The Florida panther is one of the most endangered animals in the world.
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One reason the Saola is important is because they are prey to animals like tigers and Dholes, and that's important because if the Saola go, then some of the Saola's predators might go, starve, or have one less thing to eat. Another reason why they are important: Some people of Laos and Vietnam depend on them for meat.
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As a result, the subspecies was listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species in 2008. Efforts by the government of Niger in collaboration with local and international partners have led to a resurgence of the West African giraffe.
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Species become endangered for two main reasons: loss of habitat and loss of genetic variation. A loss of habitat can happen naturally. ... Human activity can also contribute to a loss of habitat. Development for housing, industry, and agriculture reduces the habitat of native organisms.
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The Andean condor was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1973 and is in danger of becoming extinct due primarily to over hunting. Many farmers shoot these birds because they mistakenly believe the condors kill their livestock. Pesticide poisoning through the food chain has also hurt populations.
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Grazing pressure from livestock and air pollution have likely contributed to the decline in the Ili pika, which IUCN lists as vulnerable to extinction. China considers the species endangered. ... Li said he hopes to change that, and use the rediscovery of the animal to create conservation areas for the species.
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Currently, the only cobra species the IUCN lists as endangered is the Fiji snake Ogmodon vitianus, but the numbers of the other 20 species have been reduced by the loss of habitat in some parts of their range.
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According to the IUCN, both subspecies are “critically endangered,” which means they face an “extremely high risk” of extinction in the wild.
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They are threatened by hunting and habitat loss. As of 1994, it was listed as an endangered species in Mexico.
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Grey wolves are endangered because there were so few left in the lower 48 states they had to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Grey wolves are endangered because people hunted them like pests, took over their land, and killed them because they thought the wolves were hunting their livestock.