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Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. These animals live in warm coastal waters from East Africa to Australia, including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific. Family: Dugongidae. Genus: Dugong. Dugong, D ...
The zoo covers about 80 acres (32 ha), [2] and is home to many endangered species, as well as a selection of endemic fauna. The first to be built in the Middle East and Africa, rare species have been successfully bred in the zoo—including the first California sea lion to be born in the region. [citation needed]
The wildlife of Egypt is composed of the flora and fauna of this country in northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia, and is substantial and varied. Apart from the fertile Nile Valley , which bisects the country from south to north, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few scattered oases .
This is a list of the wild animal species that were reported in Egypt. Class: Mammalia (mammals) Aardvark. Order: Tubulidentata (aardvarks) Family: Orycteropodidae.
The geographic range of the Arabian leopard is poorly understood but generally considered to be limited to the Arabian Peninsula, including Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. [11] It lives in mountainous uplands and hilly steppes, but seldom moves to open plains, desert or coastal lowlands. [10] Since the late 1990s, leopards were not recorded in Egypt. [7]
Officials carried out a widespread anti-wildlife-trafficking operation leading to the seizure of thousands of endangered animals and arrest of 600 suspects.
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
An expedition through an unpredictable, perilous mountain range in Indonesia’s province of Papua led to the rediscovery of a critically endangered egg-laying mammal that hasn’t been seen for ...