The Desert Rain Frog lives on a narrow strip of sandy shores between the sea and the sand dunes of Namibia and South Africa. The Breviceps macrops are an endangered species with their greatest threat being humans. The Desert Rain Frog has a sound lifespan of up to 15 years. The Desert ...
and more than likely the species will be replaced by a new, emerging one. It can be disturbing when a species becomes extinct, but we can more readily accept that loss when it comes naturally. However, most of the extinction and near extinction that is occurring today ...
The addax is a critically endangered species of antelope found in the Sahara Desert. The species is also known as both the "white antelope" and the "screwhorn antelope" due to its pale coat and long, spiral horns. The main threat to the addax is poaching. Habitat loss has also played a...
TheTaa languageinvolves over 80 click sounds, different tones, and 20 vowels. Taa is considered anendangered languagedue to there being less than 5000 speakers of the language. 10. There were once plans for large-scale irrigation in the Kalahari While people refer to the Kalahari as a desert,...
disease. This Australian native was last seen in the wild in 1990, and it was given a critically endangered status. In 2021, the IUCN declared the mountain mist frog extinct. The organization also cited increased logging in the Queensland region as a possible contributor to the frog's tragic...
(AP) -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservat