Endangered Species

I took part in the 5th edition of 36 Days of Type to explore and understand the endangered species on the planet. To view the full project and know more about the species, visit @komalja.in

Information source: IUCN red list

Field

Illustrations

Client

Personal Project

Year

May 2018

Ateles Fusciceps | Vulnerable

Also called Black spider monkeys, they are most known for their red faces.

Bradypus pygmaeus | Critically Endangered

Also called Pygmy three-toed sloth. They are known for their low metabolic rate and spend 15 to 20 hours per day sleeping.

Centrocercus urophasianus | Near threatened

Also called Greater sage-grouse. They are known for their elaborate mating dance.

Dendrolagus sp. | Least concern

Also called Tree Kangaroos. They are known to sit and feed their babies and have an appearance of a cross between a kangaroo and a lemur.

Elephas maximus sumatranus. | Critically Endangered

Also called, Sumatran Elephant. They contribute to a healthy forest ecosystem by feeding on a variety of plants and depositing seeds wherever they go.

Here is a Sumatran male elephant; their tusks are really small and hardly visible.

Fitchia cordata M. | Critically Endangered

Also called Fitchia cordata. They are endemic to the French Polynesia and are recorded only on Bora Bora.

Geronticus eremita | Critically endangered

Also called, Northern bald ibis. They breed in Morocco, Turkey and Syria and pair for life.

Helminthoglypta walkeriana. | Critically endangered

Also called the Morro shoulderband. No population of this species make local extended movements (no more than 200km).

Inga arenicola | Critically endangered

Also called Shimbillo, they are found only in Brazil. They are often used as lumber in construction and furniture making.

Justicia americana | Least decline

Also called American water-willow, they grow above water or sometimes submerged.

Kiunga Ballochi | Critically endangered

Also called Balloch's bull eye, they inhabit the narrow, clear creeks flowing through the rainforest.

Lampedusa melitensis | Critically endangered

Also called the Maltese Door-snail, they are restricted to one locality of boulders on clay.

Labidura herculeana | Extinct

Also called Saint Helena earwig, they are the world's largest earwig. The last confirmed adult sighting of this species was in May 1967.

Melamprosops phaeosoma | Critically Endangered

Also called the Poo-uli, they are from Hawai'i and no other bird has a structure similar to it. They are the only ones to outlive all their relatives.