[mikey]

Username: Sketchiimutt
Name: Avalon
Gender: Male
Number: 10
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1. Your species: Orange-bellied parrot
2. Conservation status (source please!): Critically Endangered
3. Why are they threatened/endangered/extinct? (source please!): Disease, Predators
4. What can we do/what is being done to help?: Breeding programs have been set up. They had taken 21 pairs of these parrots from the wild and kept them in captivity. In 2012 19 of the 21 pairs with founders had ended up producing eggs.

[Leopardsong]

Username:
Name:
Gender:
Number: 11
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1. Your species: Andean Cat
2. Conservation status (source please!): Endangered
3. Why are they threatened/endangered/extinct? (source please!):
4. What can we do/what is being done to help?:

[root]

Username: ambient
Name: clyde
Gender: male
Number: 12
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1. Your species: the silky sifaka (also known as silky simpona)
2. Conservation status: the silky sifaka is currently critically endangered :(
3. Why are they endangered?: the silky sifaka is hunted for food in its area. there is also a great deal of habitat loss/disturbance that is causing many of them to be killed.
4. What can we do/what is being done to help?: local villages around the silky sifaka's habitat have begun initiatives to further educate people on this lemur, to raise awareness about them. researchers have also began to try to save this species before it dies out. there is believed to be under 1,000 left.

sources: xXx

[Carnations]

Username: john laurens.
Name: tbd
Gender: Male
Number: 13
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1. Your species: Yangtze Finless Porpoise
2. Conservation status: Critically endangered
3. Why are they threatened/endangered/extinct?: Overfishing is the main reason, but pollution and ship movement are also causes.
4. What can we do/what is being done to help?: Try not to fish as much in areas that Yangtze Finless Porpoises are known to live in, as stated above overfishing is the main cause, as well as pollute the water and move ships often in those areas {polluting water shouldn't be done anywhere tbh}.

[whatswrongwithangela]

Username: Enchanted
Name: Larry
Gender: Demimale
Number: 14
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1. Your species: The Kakapo
2. Conservation status: Critically Endangered
3. Why are they threatened/endangered/extinct?: Predators & Polynesian And European Colonisation
4. What can we do/what is being done to help?: To Help, The Remaining Kakapo Are Put On Predator Free Islands.

[minutiae]

res

[skywalker,]

dropping out.
Good luck !

[walk.]

Username:
walk.
Name:
Nora
Gender:
Female
Number:
17
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1. Your species:
Amur Leopard
2. Conservation status (source please!):
Critically endangered - Source
3. Why are they threatened/endangered/extinct? (source please!):
There are only 70 Amur leopards left in the wild, and they are facing multiple threats that are resulting in their being on the pathway to extinction. Firstly, their main threat is poaching, particularly for their skins. Their habitat is being destroyed by forest degradation, encroaching civilisation and development projects in their native countries, which are primarily Russia and China, and due to the small leopard population, inbreeding is also a severe problem, such as when in 2006-2007 there was a study of three Russian amur leopards, all of which showed lack of genetic diversity and health problems, such as heart murmurs. To make all of this even worse, tigers often kill these smaller leopards, meaning the amount of threats this wonderful leopard subspecies is under is enormous. - Source
4. What can we do/what is being done to help?:
Thankfully, there are a fair few things we can do to help. You can adopt a leopard {not actually obviously like you don't own it, but you help it to survive} for as little as £3 a month. You can learn more about the following causes, or even donate or get involved at this website, and here you can read up on what is being done overall: laws and treaties, anti-poaching, fire control, live stock compensation and public awareness etc!

[Silver Pandorica]

Mark with snow leopards <33

[The Worst Username]

Username: The Worst Username
Name: Sirocco
Gender: female
Number: 18 (19, if Silver finishes her form)

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1. Your species: the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). Kakapo are large, flightless green parrots indigenous to New Zealand, and they now only live on one or two remote islands in Oceania under close supervision by a watchful team of volunteers. Kakapo weigh approximately 3 kilos.

2. Conservation status (source please!): according to New Zealand Birds Online, they are listed as Nationally Critical; according to Aubudon.org; the kakapo is critically endangered--but, 2016 was a "record breeding year" for them, with 33 chicks living to at least a few months old!

3. Why are they threatened/endangered/extinct? (source please!):
Kakapo, even when they were still quite abundant, had a very small population range over a few scattered islands. They had no natural predators; they were and still are flightless, so their wings are almost vestigial structures by this point--kakapo still use them to glide down from trees occasionally, so they aren't completely useless. Since they didn't have predators, kakapo had no reason to fear the invasive pestilence that came to the island: cats, weasels, dogs, rats, possum, and humans.

Kakapo are also slow to reproduce; the mating system is very elaborate, and females only lay eggs when there are certain fruits in bloom on the island. Researchers learned this, and now volunteers put out fresh fruit and (I believe) certain nuts to try and manipulate the kakapo's egg-laying cycle.

So, when invasive predators came to New Zealand on ships, kakapo populations were decimated. The kakapo became extinct throughout much of its range, and the entire species almost died out. Both Maori people and Europeans found the kakapo to be an easy food source, and most all of the other invasive mammals that came with the humans preyed on kakapo--the adults, the chicks, the eggs. While there is no kakapo poaching going on today, kakapo are still on the brink of extinction.

Sources: Bagheera, and Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot.

4. What can we do/what is being done to help?:
First off, the New Zealand government has placed much of its land under protection. About thirty percent of New Zealand is managed by the Department of Conservation, which controls national parks and many other protected habitats.

Also, many kakapo living on inhabited land have been rescued and relocated to reserves on remote islands. There, volunteers keep careful watch over every kakapo; each kakapo has a name, each birth is celebrated like the birth of a human, and each death is mourned like the death of a family member would be. On the protected islands, all predators have been eliminated, access by people is strictly regulated, and no boats are allowed to come ashore.

To help, people can adopt a kakapo, which costs a minimum of 100 NZD (69 USD). Those over 18 can become volunteers, and can prepare food for kakapo, mind kakapo nests, cook for other volunteers, et cetera. Sadly, this isn't something most people have the time or money for.