A Few Endangered Animals: (including birds)

BILBY:

BILBY

• The Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is a member of the bandicoot family, Bilbies are also known as
Rabbit-Eared Bandicoots.
• They are marsupials. The pouch opens backwards so as not to be filled with dirt while digging.
• The word Bilby is from Yuwaalaraay, an Aboriginal language (source: The Australian National
University).
• The Greater Bilby, usually referred to as the Bilby, is the largest of the bandicoots, measuring
up to 55cm in length (body only) with a tail up to 29cm long. Adult males weigh up to 2.5 kg
and females about half that.

NUMBAT:

• The first animal is the Numbat which is at the brink of extinction in the Australia. The numbat is
a marsupial without a pouch and is facing extinction due to feral foxes and feral cats which are
not native to Australia. The numbat is one of the few marsupials that are active during the day.
It sleeps in hollow fallen logs, and sometimes may dig a burrow.

WOMBAT:
TIGER AND CHEETAH:

POLAR BEAR:

CHIMPANZEE:
HYENA

Hyena

BLUE AND GOLD MACAWS

SEA TURTLES:
TORTOISE:

GIANT PANDA:

TREE KANGAROO:
MANDARIN DUCK:

SEA OTTER:

BLACK-FOOTED FERRET
JACKASS PENGUIN:

SALMON-CRESTED COCKATOO:

RHINOCEROUS:
AFRICAN ELEPHANTS:

A Few Endangered Plants

Wild Violet:

Nepenthes Khasiana (commonly known as; Pitcher Plant) – Carnivorous plant:

Wild False Indigo: (Baptisia Australis)

Mauritius Bois Dentelle:

Venus Fly-trap:
Baseball Plant:

Green Pitcher Plant:

Snowdonia Hawkweed:
Rafflesia:

Titan Arum: (amorphophallus titanium)

Black Bat Flower : (tacca chantrieri)

Dendroseris Neriifolia (Found in Chile)

Green Jade Flower:

Dwarf Wooly Meadowfoam (Limnanthes Floccosa)

Ensete Ventricosum “Maurelii’ (Red banana plant)

Agave Geminiflora- Commonly known as Twin-flowered Agave

Brighamia insignis or 'Cabbage on a stick' or Olulu Palm' (Endangered Hawaiian

Plant)