- English Names – IOC World Bird List
On a world wide basis, different species may have the same name Nearly twenty years ago, the leadership of the IOC saw the need for better standardized vernacular names First came French names (Devillers and Ouellet 1993), then Spanish names (Bernis 1995) English names were especially challenging They took more than fifteen years to compile
- Poaching numbers | Conservation | Save the Rhino International
South Africa has by far the largest population of rhinos in the world and is an incredibly important country for rhino conservation From 2007-2014 the country experienced an exponential rise in rhino poaching – a growth of more than 9,000%
- The Most Snake Infested Lakes in Indiana - WorldAtlas
It was created by an earthen dam in 1974 The dam has a total height of 181 feet (55 m) and impounds the East Fork of the Whitewater River, bringing in a steady flow of water To this end, Brookville Lake has a surface area of more than 5,000 acres, which is more than enough for tons of activities
- Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia
The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforests on Earth, [4] and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees in about 16,000 species [5] More than 30 million people of 350 different ethnic groups live in the Amazon, which are
- Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef - Curious
Close to 9,000 species of marine life call it home, and this doesn’t include any of the huge number of microbes, plankton and fungi that also live there And although the modern reef system is only around 6,000 to 9,000 years old, many of the creatures that call it home have existed for millions of years
- Image Database - African Bird Club
Welcome to the African Bird Image Database (AFBID) This is a photographic database which has been developed by the African Bird Club (ABC) in collaboration with Bird Explorers and Birding Africa and managed by ABC since 2005 AFBID now contains over 25,000 freely available images of more than 2,300 bird species Taxonomy and nomenclature follow the IOC World Bird List The database was created
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