Please note that a handling charge of 50p per ticket applies to bookings made in person or over the phone. The diversity of life on earth is astounding, with each species perfectly adapted to its environment. As people kill these wild animals, through pesticides, accidents such as collisions with cars, or hunting, native species may become endangered. Beautifully written, capturing the wonder and personality of each creature, big and small perfectly. A species may be listed as extinct in the wild only after years of surveys have failed to record an individual in its native or expected habitat.

The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit. A new, unknown virus, for example, could kill hundreds or even thousands of individuals before being identified. The Sri Lankan legume tree ( Crudia zeylanica), native only to the island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, was a giant species of legume. Galapagos kelp is classified as vulnerable because its population has declined more than 10 percent over 10 years.

The Ethiopian banana frog ( Afrixalus enseticola) is a small frog native to high- altitude areas of southern Ethiopia.

An Atlas of Endangered Animalsis a beautifully illustrated, fascinating and important document of an incredible world at risk, and, just maybe, a handbook for restoring it. For Russet Burbanks, however, farmers must use fertilizers and pesticides to ensure healthy crops because the plant has almost no genetic variation.The NBN Atlas is a collaborative project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it available and usable online.

He is coauthor of the World Health Organization's award-winning Inherit the Wind: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment.Probability of extinction in the wild is at least 50 percent within 10 years or three generations, whichever is longer. Megan McCubbin reveals the stories of the scientists, rangers and conservationists who are fighting to save these extraordinary creatures from extinction.

The reptiles are considered to be the descendants of people who were miraculously turned into turtles by a saint during the 13th century. The Siberian sturgeon is an endangered species because its total population has declined between 50 and 80 percent during the past 60 years (three generations of sturgeon). They cannot adapt to changes in the environment as quickly as other animals, and fewer cheetahs survive to maturity.Almost all potatoes cultivated, sold, and consumed, for instance, are from a single species, the Russet Burbank. Those species that are extinct in some form are placed within the last two categories—extinct in the wild and extinct.