Wildlife of China
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China's varied geography and climate has created a wealth of wildlife habitats, the country's vast human population has put pressure on the environment, bringing some high-profile creatures to the edge of extinction. Most famous of these is the giant panda, which survives in pockets of high-altitude bamboo forest across the southwest. Dhole in China is one of the least know species, it population in China are critically endangered. The Giant Pandas are endangered and now there are only around 1,500 of them left in the world, but, luckily, the number is slowly on the rise. A few Siberian tigers haunt the northeastern highlands, while the critically endangered South China tiger can be found in reserves in Fujian and Guangxi. Less well-known rarities include the snub-nosed golden monkey and Chinese alligator, both of which it is possible to see in the wild. Birdlife can be prolific, however, with freshwater lakes along the Yangtze and in western Guizhou, along with the vast saline Qinghai Lake, providing winter refuge for hosts of migratory wildfowl - including rare Siberian and black-necked cranes.
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[edit] Fauna
Animals native to China:
- Asian Golden Cat
- Bactrian Camel
- Blue Bear
- Boar
- Brown rat
- Caspian Tiger
- Chinese Monal
- Chinese Mountain Cat
- Chinese crocodile lizard
- Clouded Leopard
- Common Spoonbill
- Corsac Fox
- Deinagkistrodon
- Dhole
- Dice snake
- Dwarf Blue Sheep
- Elaphe bimaculata
- Elk
- Ethmostigmus rubripes
- Eurasian Lynx
- Giant Panda
- Gloydius blomhoffii
- Grass Snake
- Hainan Hare
- Hog Badger
- Indochinese Tiger
- Indotestudo elongata
- Jerboa
- Leopard
- Leopard Cat
- Long-eared Jerboa
- Manchurian Hare
- Marbled Cat
- Marco Polo sheep
- Neofelis
- Ovophis monticola
- Pacific cod
- Pallas's Cat
- Pelochelys cantorii
- Protobothrops jerdonii
- Qinling Panda
- Raccoon Dog
- Rafetus swinhoei
- Red Panda
- Siberian Musk Deer
- Siberian Roe Deer
- Siberian Tiger
- Snow leopard
- South China Tiger
- Tibetan Fox
- Tibetan Wolf
- Tibetan antelope
- Tiger
- Trimeresurus gramineus
- Trimeresurus mangshanensis
- Trimeresurus medoensis
- Trimeresurus stejnegeri
- Yangtze dolphin
[edit] Birds
The avifauna of China includes a total of 1314 species, of which 52 are endemic, two have been introduced by humans, and 55 are rare or accidental. One species listed is extirpated in China and is not included in the species count. Eighty seven species are globally threatened.
[edit] Other
There are 2935 species of gastropods and 1187 species of bivalves in China.[1] There is little information about extinctions of invertebrates in China.[2]
[edit] Flora
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[edit] Endangered species
Currently, China's endangered flora and fauna includes the familiar, endemic and scarce giant panda; South China tiger, Yangtze river dolphin; crested ibis; and a host of other plants and animals. Of these, the giant panda is most populous with approximately a thousand individuals left in the wild, while the entire known population of crested ibis is perhaps 45, and Yangtze dolphins number less than 20. Other endangered animals include the very rare dhole and snow leopard, which depends on western China for over half its range; the Asian elephant, a resident of Xishuangbanna near Laos and Vietnam; the golden monkey; the Yangtze alligator; and migratory species such as the red-crowned crane and black-necked crane. Status and distribution of endemic gray wolf and corsac fox in China are totally unknown.
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