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Animales En peligro de Extincion

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Atún Rojo
(Bluefin)
Features: Atlantic bluefin tuna can exceed 450 kg in weight, and rival the black marlin and Atlantic blue marlin. Throughout history bluefin tuna has been highly prized as foodfor humans. The market value was already high since the time of Ancient Greece and is known to the Phoenicians traded with their flesh. Bluefin tuna is also the basis of a more lucrative fisheries in the world.
Location: Pelagic ecosystems habitat in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas, particularly the Mediterranean Sea.
Threats: is on the brink of commercial extinction because ofinternational trade and overfishing, illegal in much. According to scientists, the breeding population has declined by over 85%. currently banned their capture.

El Águila Harpía
(The Harpy Eagle)
Features: It is the most powerful raptor, the average size of the female harpy eagle are 100 cm long, 200 cm wingspan and a weight of 9 kg. Male has smaller dimensions: up to 196 cm wingspan and weighing about8 kg. It is the second largest eagle in the world, surpassed in size (distance between the ends of the wings) only by the Philippine eagle.
Location: It stretches from southern Mexico to southeastern Brazil. Lives in large undisturbed forests, both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific, between the coast and the 2,000 meters altura. In Costa Rica have a report of this bird in recent years in theOsa Peninsula. It has been seen in the tropical and subtropical forests, especially in mountain or hilly areas. From Mexico to Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.
Threats: It is very probable that there are only a few animals, threatened every day scaled by the indiscriminate use of pesticides and deforestation. The Harpy habitat is being fragmented and reducedday by day. In addition, copies continuously captured for zoos, museums or private collections. This reduces the amount of copies.

Cardenalito
(Siskin)
Features: belonging to the family Fringillidae, these birds differ in color according to sex. The socket has a grayish plumage in most of the body, the male present instead of red-orange shades currently intense
Location: It looks much theSpecies in Falcon, today he looks at Lara and part of Guárico and Anzoátegui.
Threats: is considered the most endangered species in Venezuela. Their beautiful plumage was causing persecution from the nineteenth century to use as a decorative hat as a species and hybridization with canari

El Cóndor Andino
(The Andean Condor)
Features: The Condor is a large bird with certain sedentarymonogamous and nocturnal. His head is bare of feathers and the male is easily differentiated from the female by its crest or caruncle bearing on the front and peak, plus the male is larger and has the iris yellowish brown while the her companion is red, his vision i s really extraordinary
Location: It lies along the Andes and in Venezuela can be found specifically in the Andean Cordillera and theSierra de Perija.
Threats: extinction of large mammals American and reducing species such as deer and tapirs have contributed to the decline of populations of these predators. Additionally, since the period of conquest has been affected by hunting and even hunting

Lince ibérico
(Iberian lynx)
Features: Its features pointed ears are finished in a stiff brush of black hairs that favors theircamouflage to break the round shape of his head. Also characteristic sideburns hanging from his cheeks. Appear from year of life when just hanging below the chin and get larger with age. Males have sideburns and black brushes longer than females.
Location: The Iberian lynx is in the forest and Mediterranean scrub in very restricted areas of the Iberian Peninsula. In Spain in a few areas, well...