Chile: Endangered Species
Submitted by The Catt-Trax2 Team on Mon, 2007/01/08 - 3:09pm.
This report prepared by Ricardo de la Garza Garcia and Jessica Banning, students in BCIT's Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.
The following species are endangered:
- Short-tailed Chinchilla (Chinchilla brevicaudata)
- Andean Cat (Oreailurus jacobita)
- Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
- Marine Otter (Lontra felina) (Previously Lutra felina.)
- Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
- South Andean Deer (or Chilean Huemul) (Hippocamelus bisulcus)
- Southern River Otter (Lontra provocax). (Previously Lutra provocax)
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