100 critically-endangered species

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This is the Pygmy Three-toed Sloth that lives on a few islands off Panama. Only a few hundred of these beautiful beasties are alive today. Like the Sumatran rhinoceros, Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey, and Attenborough's Pitcher Plant, the Pygmy Three-toed Sloth is one of the 100 most critically-endangered species, according to a new report from the Zoological Society of London and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. At this week's IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea, the two organizations published a book and e-book titled "Priceless or Worthless" that profiles these species. "The 100 most threatened species. Are they priceless or worthless?"

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elix

This is the actual link to the article, as opposed to the article list.

I wonder if these cute little guys are on the list. According to Arkive.org they’re the most endangered species of hare left, but I’m not qualified to confirm that. (Edit: Far as I can tell, they are not on the list.)
- Symbiote
  
  Probably not. Just going from the Wikipedia page, the IUCN Red List rating is EN/Endangered. The species referred to by this article will, I think, all be CR/Critically Endangered.
  
  You can see the assessment of Lepus flavigularis here: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/11790/0
  - Brainspore
    
    Isn’t that splitting hares?
Anthony I

Sumatran rhinoceros is going extinct because of a superstitious belief that consuming powered rhino horn will give a guy a hard-on, cure people of cancer and so on… Perhaps some money trying to dispel the myth may help this creature the most.
- Brainspore
  
  If it weren’t for the advent of Viagra that poor thing would probably be extinct by now already.
TheKaz1969

I hate sloths. Think they are creepy and just waiting to leap at us and tear our throats out. I don’t want them extinct, though… :(
- saraeanderson
  
  They don’t want to do anything at all. But I can see how you’d get that feeling.
ashabot

Why argue over who is or isn’t on “the list”. Time for solutions. We are all screwed if we don’t change the way we live on this planet.