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2007 IUCN Red List photo gallery - compiled by ARKive

These photographs represent species we are highlighting in the 2007 IUCN Red List. Print quality images for articles promoting the 2007 IUCN Red List may be obtained by emailing Lynette Lew at lynette.lewiucn.org. For additional use, please contact the copyright owners directly, via the links next to each of the images. For a wider selection of endangered species imagery, see ARKive, an online multi-media library of the world's species.

Mammals

Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Status: Critically Endangered
Region or habitat: Sub-Saharan Africa

photo © M. Watson / www.ardea.com

Sumatran orang-utan (Pongo abelii)
Status:Critically Endangered
Region or habitat:

Photo © Anup Shah / naturepl.com

Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)
Status: Endangered
Region or habitat: Sub-Saharan Africa

Photo© Anup Shah / naturepl.com

Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer)
Status :Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Region or habitat: Yangtze River in China

Photo © Mark Carwardine / NHPA / Photoshot

Speke's gazelle (Gazella spekei)
Status: Endangered
Region or habitat: Endemic to the Horn of Africa

Photo © Mark Bowler / NHPA / Photoshot

Birds

Mauritius parakeet (Psittacula eques)
Status: Endangered
Region or habitat: South West Mauritius

Photo © Malcolm Burgess

Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
Status: Endangered
Region or habitat: Europe, Africa, Middle East, India

Photo© Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com

Ruppell's griffon (Gyps rueppellii)
Status: Near Threatened
Region or habitat:

Photo © Jonathan & Angela Scott / NHPA / Photoshot

White-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis)
Status: Vulnerable
Region or habitat: Sub-Saharan Africa to South Africa

Photo © Nigel J Dennis / NHPA / Photoshot

Reptiles

Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis)
Status: Critically Endangered
Region or habitat: Isla Santa Catalina, Gulf of California

Photo © Ingo Arndt / naturepl.com

Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)
Status: Critically Endangered
Region or habitat: India and Nepa

Photo © G. & H. Denzau / naturepl.com

Invertebrates

Floreana coral (Tubastraea floreana)
Status: Critically Endangered
Region or habitat: Endemic to the Galápagos Archipelago

Photo © Paul Humann/ www.fishid.com

Galapagos coral (Polycyathus isabela)
Status: Vulnerable
Region or habitat: Endemic to the Galápagos Archipelago

Photo © Cleveland P. Hickman, Jr

Wellington 's solitary coral (Rhizopsammia wellingtoni)
Status: Critically Endangered
Region or habitat: Endemic to the Galápagos Archipelago

Photo © Paul Humann / www.fishid.com

Fish

Banggai cardinal fish (Pterapogon kauderni)
Status: Endangered
Region or habitat: Banggai Archipelago in Indonesia

Photo © B Jones & M Shimlock / NHPA / Photoshot

Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum)
Status: Vulnerable
Region or habitat: Indo-Pacific

Photo © Georgette Douwma / naturepl.com

Plants

Galapagos kelp (Eisenia galapagensis)
Status: Vulnerable
Region or habitat: Endemic to the Galápagos Islands

Photo© Sean Connell, University of Adelaide

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