Pantanal Dispatch Day 2

The objective of this activity is to improve students' Internet skills while learning about endangered species found in the Pantanal.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is a leading group in assessing the conservation status of species. They provide a Red List of Threatened Species that gauges how critically species are threatened. The main categories they use are extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, vulnerable and lower risk. To see what these specific categories mean see the IUCN website: http://www.redlist.org/info/categories_criteria.html

Using the IUCN website search the following list of Pantanal species to determine if they are threatened, and if so, to what degree. (Search using http://www.redlist.org/search/search-basic.html with the species' common name.)

Species List

1. Jaguar
2. Hyacinth Macaw
3. Black Howler Monkey
4. Toucan
5. Greater Rhea
6. Bush Dog
7. Crowned Eagle
8. Pampas Deer
9. Brazilian Tapir
10. White-Lipped Peccary
11. Giant Armadillo
12. Maned Wolf
13. Giant Otter
14. Giant Anteater
15. Oncilla

ACT: Stop the Clock on Species Extinctions

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