One of the rarest species in the world, classified as "critically endangered" in the Red List of the IUCN - World Conservation Union. (Pg. 79)
What is the Sumatran rhino?
100
This animal is hunted in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar for its wool. (Pg.88)
What is the Tibetan antelope?
100
Overharvesting and other human activities are leading to this, or so conservation scientists claim. (Pg. 88)
What is "global" extinction?
200
Because Sumatran rhinos are powerful climbers and agile swimmers they live in this particular environment. (Pg. 81)
What is a hilly rainforest?
200
Devastated by poaching and overfishing, this species found along the California coast has all but completely disappeared. (Pg. 88)
What is the white abalone?
200
Few authors-none of them biologist-still doubt that this particular concept is occurring on a large scale. (Pg.90)
What is extinction?
300
This practice became popular during the 1970s as a bizarre and unintended consequence of the OPEC oil embargo. (Pg. 85).
What is the illegal slaughter of the Sumatran rhino?
300
The Philippine eagle, the Hawaiian crow, the Spix's macaw, the Chinese river dolphin, the Javan rhino, and the Hainan gibbon are all members of this group. (Pg. 89)
What is the Hundred Heartbeat Club?
300
Sixteen of the 263 mammals native to this continent have vanished since the arrival of the European settlers. (Pg.91)
What is Australia?
400
Alan Rabinowitz and his team ran into these uninvited visitors while they were exploring the Danum Valley. (Pg. 87-88)
What are poachers?
400
One of this species was cut down and the species was given up for lost-until one more was discovered on a steep volcanic ridge. (Pg. 89)
What is the Dendroseris macracantha tree?
400
This species of Hawaiian bird had a small population in the 1970s, but twenty years later hardly any remain. (Pg.90)
What is the po'ouli?
500
Must be found now or the Sumatran Rhino will become extinct. (Pg. 87)
What are conservation solutions?
500
An extreme category for species that are close to the edge of extinction. (Pg.89)
What is the "living dead"?
500
The disappearance of the mammoth bird, Genyornis emus, correlates approximately with the arrival of this particular group.