Oil Spill: Wildlife Crisis


Threatened & Endangered Species in the Gulf Region

Alabama beach mouse
Alabama red belly turtle
Alabama shad
American crocodile
Bald eagle
Beach jacquemontia
Blue whale
Bluefin tuna
Brown pelican
Choctawhatchee beach mouse
Elkhorn coral
Finback whale
Florida perforate cladonia
Florida salt marsh vole
Garbers spurge
Green sea turtle
Gulf sturgeon
Hawksbill sea turtle
Humpback whale
Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle
Key deer
Key Largo cotton mouse
Key Largo woodrat
Leatherback sea turtle
Lined seahorse
Loggerhead sea turtle
Lower Keys marsh rabbit
Night shark
Perdido Key beach mouse
Piping plover
Red knot
Rice rat
Roseate tern
Sei whale
Smalltooth sawfish
Speckeld hind
Sperm whale
St. Andrew beach mouse
Staghorn coral
Warsaw grouper
West Indian manatee
Whooping crane
Wood stork

manatee

plover

whoopingcrane

seaturtle

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 *The vast majority of these species are federally listed threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (or recently delisted species).  Additionally, there are some globally listed (critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable) species under the IUCN Red List.   One species listed here has been petitioned by our member group to be added to the ESA list, but has not yet been included (the Bluefin Tuna).

 


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