In support of efforts being made by the Zoological Society of London we are acting now to protect seven of Tahiti’s unique tree snails (Partula affinis, P. clara, P. hyaline, P. otaheitana, Samoana attenuata, Trochomorpha cressida and T. pallens). Found nowhere else on earth they are in a very precarious situation and without our assistance it has been predicted that they will go extinct during the year 2002.
The critically endangered striped rabbit occurs throughout the Southeast
Asian region, including Sumatra, (Nesolagus netscheri) and
the Annamite mountains along the Vietnam-Laos border, (Nesolagus
timinsi).
South Africa is widely considered to be one of the more unique bio-geographic zones on earth. Many plants and animals are found nowhere else. For example 10% of its flowering plants and birds are endemic to the region that represents a fraction of the actual global land-surface area.
