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> ARKive: Unique wildlife in the British Overseas Territories
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> discover the world's most endangered species
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> ARKive, an initiative of the UK charity Wildscreen, aims to create an
> audio-visual library of all animal and plant species on earth. This year,
> with support from the
> Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it is focusing on species found in the
> British Overseas Territories, many of which are endangered. Pictured is the
> beautiful queen triggerfish (*balistes vetula*) which lives in the coral
> reefs of Bermuda.
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> The endangered Barbary macaque (*macaca sylvanus*) is the only primate,
> humans excepted, to live in Europe, and the only macaque which lives outside
> Asia. 200 of them live on the Rock of Gibraltar.
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> The ctenella coral (c*tenella chagius*) is found in the Chagos Archipelago
> in the Indian ocean.
> The coral reefs of the British Indian Ocean Territory cover around 4,000
> square kilometres, one and a half per cent of the total global area of coral
> reefs.
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> The Anegada ground iguana (*cyclura pinguis*) is only found on the island of
> Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. It is a critically endangered
> species, with no more than 200 thought to be alive.
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> The West Indian whistling duck (*dendrocygna arborea*) is found throughout
> the Caribbean, particularly in the wetlands of the Turks and Caicos.
> Often hunted for sport, or for its eggs, it is extremely endangered.
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> The Cayman Island blue iguana (*cyclura lewisi)* is one of the most
> endangered lizards on the globe. There are believed to be no more than 25 in
> the wild.
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> Anguilla, in the Leeward Islands, plays host to the Leeward Island
> racer (*alsophis
> rijersmai*), one of the most endangered and rare snakes in the Lesser
> Antilles.
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> The black-browed albatross (*thalassarche melanophrys) *is also an
> endangered species. 60 per cent of the population is found on the Falkland
> islands in the South Atlantic
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> This curious-looking creature is definitely *not* endangered.
> The Antarctic krill (*euphausia superba*) is one the most abundant organisms
> to be found in the Antarctic, playing a central role in the food chain as
> prey for penguins, whales and seals.
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> The "mountain chicken" (*leptodactylus fallax*), also known as the giant
> ditch frog, is a critically endangered species native only to the Caribbean
> islands of Dominica and Montserrat. Hunting, habitat loss, and outbreaks of
> fungal disease have wiped out much of the population.
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> The king penguin (a*ptenodytes patagonicus*) is found in the sub-Antarctic,
> on islands including South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands.
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> The endangered Henderson petrel (*pterodroma atrata*) breeds only on
> Henderson island, one of the four Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific
> Ocean.
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> The black cabbage tree (*melanodendron integrifoliu*m) is found on the South
> Atlantic island of St Helena. Only around 1000 trees are said to remain.
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> The Akrotiri salt lake in the British Sovereign Base Area of Cyprus is home
> in winter to around 30,000 greater flamingos (*phoenicopterus roseus*). They
> are also found in Gibraltar.
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