Falling Species

Facilitating awareness of species that are in decline around us. If you are interested in learning more or supporting falling species everywhere, consider donating to World Wildlife Fund. Curated and maintained by Snala

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Ceylon Rose (Atrophaneura Jophon)

This beautiful butterfly, sometimes called the Sri Lankan Rose, belongs to the Swallowtail family and is only found in the forests of Sri Lanka.  It is critically endangered due to loss of habitat and its population continues to decline.

Source: Wikipedia

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Giant Ditch Frog (Leptodactylus fallax)

The Giant Ditch Frog is native to the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Montserrat.  The population has been recently devastated by over-hunting for food and a fungal disease that has ravaged the population.  Hunting of this frog is so common due to its large size, with adult females growing to be up to 21 centimeters long.  It is known locally by a nick-name of 'Mountain Chicken' due to its common use as a regional food source.

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Growling Grass Frog (Litoria Raniformis)

The Growling grass frog is native to southeastern Australia.  This frog can get very large, at nearly four inches from snout to vent. Although it is an agile climber it is mostly found in reeds or swampy grasslands where it hunts other frogs and basks in the sun during the day.

Image Credit: Wikipedia/Tereza

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Booroolong Frog (Litoria booroolongensis)

The Booroolong Frog is native to western slopes and areas of New South Wales and northern Victoria, predominately near streams.  This frog is normally grey, olive or brown in color with pale spots.  The exact cause of their recent decline has not yet been determined.

Image Source: Grant

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Woylie

The Woylie is a small marsupial that previously had two subspecies, though one is now extinct.  This marsupial once inhabited over 60% of the Australian mainland, however now inhabits less than one percent.  It has been driven to the brink of extinction primarily due to clearing of land for agriculture and grazing animals.

Image Credit: Arthur Chapman

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Colombian spider monkey

The Colombian spider monkey, Ateles fusciceps rufiventris, is a sub-specoes of the Black-headed spider monkey that is found in Colombia and Panama.

Image Credit: William Warby

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Red Wolf

Previously extinct from the wild the Red Wolf, (Canis Lupus Rufus) originally ranged from west Texas to southeastern Missouri.  It was reintroduced into the wild through a captive breeding program in 1987.

Image Credit: Tim Ross

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Himalayan Wolf

"The Himalayan wolf may represent an ancient isolated line of wolves consisting of a small population of about 350 animals."  These wolves are endangered in part due to their own location and isolation from other lines of Canis Lupus.  Studies have shown that this unique wolf diverged from the Canis Lupus line some 800,000 years ago.

Image Credit: Balajijagadesh

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Carrikeri harlequin frog

A species of toad in the Bufonidae family.  This two inch toad, from northern Columbia, is critically endangered due to a fungal outbreak and increasing habitat destruction due to agricultural needs.  Believed extinct for a time, it was rediscovered in early 2008.

Image Credit: Giovanni Alberto Chaves Portilla - Berkeley.edu

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Piedmont Anomalous Blue

This beautiful butterfly can only be found in the Aosta Valley in the Italian Alps.

Image Credit: Johannes van Donge

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Falling Species

This blog is dedicated to the thousands of species in decline or critically endangered.  It is my hope that by posting basic information of these species, we can continue to foster awareness of the continual decline of many species.