Central African Republic Endangered Species

As of February 9th, 2015, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ for CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC lists four critically endangered species and nine endangered species. Central African Republic's critically endangered species on the IUCN List are as follows: Slender-snouted Crocodile, Sociable Lapwing, Western Gorilla, and the Neoschumannia kamerunensis flowering plant. Examining the spatial distribution of the Western Gorilla, conservationists and biologists know that the Western Gorilla still exists in an area of West-Central Africa including the countries Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Republic of the Congo. The species range also includes extreme southwestern Central African Republic. The Cross River Gorilla - a subspecies of the Western Gorilla living in Cameroon and Nigeria (not the Central African Republic) - was originally thought to be extinct.

About 1/3 of the Central African Republic is covered by rainforests, which of course provide habitats for a variety of endangered and common species. As with many rainforests, deforestation affects Central African Republic's rainforests but fortunately not to the extent as deforestation rates in some other countries. According to environment conservation news journal Monga Bay, deforestation in the C.A.R. was about 1.93% from 1990 to 2005 - a much smaller percent than deforestation in countries such as Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Nigeria.

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