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Amazon basin. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname ...
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit South African conservation organisation. Founded in 1973, the EWT has an expanding footprint throughout southern and East Africa, focusing on the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems. The EWT implements research and conservation action programmes ...
Angat Hydropower Corporation. The Angat Watershed Forest Reserve is a conservation area that protects the drainage basin in the southern Sierra Madre range north of Metro Manila in the Philippines where surface water empties into the Angat River and its distributaries. It is spread over an area of 62,309 hectares (153,970 acres) in the eastern ...
Wikispecies has information related to IUCN Critically endangered species. Critically endangered biota of South America. Animal/fauna and plant/flora species listed by the IUCN Red List and/or NatureServe as critically endangered / critically imperiled. IUCN Critically endangered category . All IUCN Red List categories.
The Harpy Eagle also inhabits the Rupununi and is the largest aerial predator in South America. [1] The critically endangered Red Siskin is one of the many species of bird that was rediscovered in the Rupununi river region. A 253,800 ha site in the south central Rupununi catchment has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife ...
Vastres Valenciennes, 1847. The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche is any large species of bonytongue in the genus Arapaima native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America. Arapaima is the type genus of the subfamily Arapaiminae within the family Osteoglossidae. [1][2][3] They are among the world's largest freshwater fish, reaching as ...
Endangered biota of South America. Wikispecies has information related to IUCN Endangered species. Endangered biota of South America. South American native animals−fauna and flora−plants listed by the IUCN Red List and/or NatureServe as endangered species. IUCN Red List Endangered category .
The giant otter has a handful of other names. In Brazil it is known as ariranha, from the Tupi word arerãîa, or onça-d'água, meaning water jaguar. [6] In Spanish, river wolf (Spanish: lobo de río) and water dog (Spanish: perro de agua) are used occasionally (though the latter also refers to several different animals) and may have been more common in the reports of explorers in the 19th ...