Afghanistan Endangered Species

If you have not explored this website before, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ contains information about endangered and threatened species around the world. At the crossroads of the Middle East and Central Asia, AFGHANISTAN has at least 70 species that are near-threatened, vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered. Near-threatened is the lowest concern out of those four categories, while critically endangered means that species are at a large risk of facing extinction. Four bird species are critically endangered. They are the Long-Billed Vulture, Snow Crane, Sociable Plover (a perfect name if these birds like to have great friends and companions around!), and the White-rumped Vulture. While population numbers are relatively small, the White-rumped Vulture lives in a large geographical range from Afghanistan all the way east through countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Afghani brook salamander (with this binomial nomenclature: Paradactylodon mustersi) is a critically endangered amphibian because it lives in a very small area (10 sq. kilometers) and the quality of its habitat is diminishing.