Benin Endangered Species

As of September 22nd, 2014, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ lists four critically endangered species and sixteen endangered species in BENIN, a vertically skinny West African country formerly colonized by France until 1960. The four critically endangered species of the IUCN Red List for Benin are the Atlantic Goliath Grouper, Largetooth Sawfish, African Slender-Snouted Crocodile, and the Smalltooth Sawfish. Formerly, the data on the African Slender-Snouted Crocodile was deficient, so it was hard to determine the status of this species. Now there is more information to determine that it is critically endangered. Even though it is critically endangered, this crocodile's range is quite extensive and is divided into two sections: a West African area including the countries of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and a Central African area including Cameroon, western and southern Central African Republic, much of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and possibly Equatorial Guinea.

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