These are the creatures that could disappear from each U.S. state
When you think of endangered animals, species found far inside a tropical rain forest or deep below the ocean’s surface might to spring to mind. However, each state in the U.S. is also home to its own unique animal at risk of going extinct.
“Recovering species is a biological question, not an economic question […] The new rules completely undermine the strength of the ESA. The point of the act is to prevent extinction; this is going to do the opposite. It’s going to undermine efforts to recover species.”
Leah Gerber
Prof. of Conservation Science, Arizona State University
To tie in with National Wildlife Day on September 4th, NetCredit has launched an illustrated tribute to shed light, and a bit of love, on those less-famous endangered species highlighted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service:
STATE | SPECIES | STATE | SPECIES | STATE | SPECIES |
Alabama | Alabama beach mouse | Louisiana | Louisiana pine snake | Ohio | Copperbelly water snake |
Alaska | Blue whale | Maine | New England cottontail | Oklahoma | American burying beetle |
Arizona | Mount Graham red squirrel | Maryland | Maryland darter | Oregon | Loggerhead sea turtle |
Arkansas | Ivory billed woodpecker | Massachusetts | Humpback whale | Pennsylvania | Short-eared owl |
California | Point Arena mountain beaver | Michigan | Kirtland’s warbler | Rhode Island | Hawksbill sea turtle |
Colorado | Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly | Minnesota | Rusty patched bumble bee | South Carolina | Frosted flatwoods salamander |
Connecticut | Bog turtle | Mississippi | Mississippi sandhill crane | South Dakota | Black-footed ferret |
Delaware | Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel | Missouri | Ozark hellbender | Tennessee | Nashville crayfish |
Florida: | Red wolf | Montana | Whooping crane | Texas | Northern Aplomado falcon |
Georgia | Etowah darter | Nebraska | Salt creek tiger beetle | Utah | Utah prairie dog |
Hawaii | Akikiki | Nevada | Mount Charleston blue butterfly | Vermont | Spotted turtle |
Idaho | Woodland caribou | New Hampshire | Blanding’s turtle | Virginia | Shenandoah salamander |
Indiana | Indiana bat | New Jersey | Sei whale | Washington | Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit |
Illinois | Illinois cave amphipod | New Mexico | New Mexico meadow jumping mouse | West Virginia | Virginia big-eared bat |
Iowa | Iowa pleistocene snail | New York | Eastern massasauga | Wisconsin | Piping plover |
Kansas | Neosho mucket | North Carolina | Carolina northern flying squirrel | Wyoming | Wyoming toad |
Kentucky | Kentucky arrow darter | North Dakota | Least tern |
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