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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Andorra Endangered Species


The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ lists 28 species that are either endangered or critically endangered in ANDORRA, a tiny western European principality between France and Spain in the Pyrenees Mountains. Fortunately, there are no critically endangered species listed for Andorra. Also, there are only three endangered species on this list: Aurelio's Rock Lizard (Iberolacerta aurelioi), Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), and the Thick Shelled River Mussel (Unio crassus). I recently discovered that the IUCN Red List organization made online distribution maps of many species. According to the now-defunct map of the Aurelio's Rock Lizard, the lizard is found in a very small geographic area: western Andorra, extreme southern France, and extreme northeastern Spain. The also-defunct map of the Egyptian Vulture, however, showed a vast range on the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe yet the species is still endangered.

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