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Conservation Attention: Very Low

When threatened, this Critically Endangered frog inflates its body with air and stands raised on outstretched limbs to appear larger.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

This Critically Endangered frog is one of around 15 species collectively known as “egg frogs”, and can be found in the Bamenda Highlands of western Cameroon.

Conservation Attention: Low

Despite the large size of the Banded Ground-cuckoo, this species is inconspicuous and not easy to observe.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

The Banded Toed Gecko is a Moroccan endemic and has a fragmented distribution between the Atlas and Rif Mountains.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

This bird is brightly-coloured, but highly secretive.

Conservation Attention: Medium

The Barbados Leaf-toed gecko has very high predation rates, with a study in 2015 finding 94% of individuals were in a stage of tail regeneration!

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Barrio’s frogs are powerful and fast moving, often jumping to the middle of a stream and seeking shelter under submerged stones or along the stream bank if threatened.

Conservation Attention: Good

The basking shark is the second biggest fish in the sea, after the whale shark. It is the only extant species in the family Cetorhinidae. As an enormous filter feeding species it can be encountered swimming slowly or “basking” near the surface whilst ram-feeding on plankton in cold, coastal waters.

Conservation Attention: Good

In 1985 the adult male population of Baw Baw frogs was estimated to be over ten thousand individuals.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

The Be’er Sheva Fringe-fingered Lizard has had a major population decline in the past few years with more than an 80% decrease in three generations.

Conservation Attention: Low

All individuals of the beautiful nursery frog are found in one location, Thornton Peak in Queensland, Australia, above 1,100 metres above sea level.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Beck’s Petrel was only definitely known from two specimens taken in 1928 and 1929, until its rediscovery in 2007.

Conservation Attention: Good

Bell’s sawshelled turtle, also known as Bell’s snapping turtle, is one of four species of the genus Myuchelys which split from all other reptiles almost 30 million years ago.

Conservation Attention: Medium

This otherwise reclusive bird is best known for its elaborate courtship display, where the male’s black and white plumage is shown off to good effect in short arching display flights, as well as choreographed strutting – with fluffed up neck feathers and a head pumping action, to attract females.

Conservation Attention: Low

The big-headed Amazon River turtle is known locally as the “Cabezón”, which means ‘big-headed’ or ‘stubborn’. This species is one of the most understudied species of turtle in South America, despite being an important food resource for people living in Amazonia.

Conservation Attention: Low

As its name suggests, the big-headed turtle has a disproportionately large head compared to its small body. Its head is so large, in fact, that it cannot be retracted into its shell!

Conservation Attention: Good

Distinguishable from the two other species of thresher sharks, the pelagic and the common thresher, by its namesake – a pair of extremely large eyes used to detect prey in low light.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

The Critically Endangered bigfoot splayfoot salamander is endemic to Mexico and found in damp caves surrounded by forest at around 2,4000 metres above sea level.

Conservation Attention: Good

The black rhinoceros has four subspecies, one of which was declared extinct in 2011, with two others critically endangered.

Conservation Attention: Medium

With an estimated population of just 93 adults, this stilt is the rarest wading bird in the world.

Conservation Attention: Medium

The black-and-white ruffed lemur is one of two ruffed lemur species in the Varecia genus.

Conservation Attention: Very Low

The black-breasted leaf turtle is one of the smallest species of the family Geoemydidae, with individuals having a carapace (shell) length less than 11 cm!

Conservation Attention: Very Low

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis is a member of the gecko family Gekkonidae which diverged from other reptile groups 65 million years ago; about the time dinosaurs went extinct!

Conservation Attention: Very Low

This large, dark cuckoo is critically endangered and now has a very limited range and severely fragmented population, surviving in tiny pockets of remaining primary forest.