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Birds (Iran)
Birds of Iran: about 491 recorded species, 324 breeding, at a crossroads of Palearctic, Oriental, and Afrotropical faunas; key wetlands, Ramsar host, falconry heritage, and current war and conservation pressures.
Crop and Medicinal Plants
Crop and medicinal plants are the species humans cultivate or gather for food, fiber, dyes, and health, with global medicinal trade exceeding $60 billion a year.
Ficus auriculata
木瓜榕 (Ficus auriculata), also called 大果榕 or Roxburgh fig, is a small evergreen fig tree of southern China and neighboring Asia whose sweet figs cluster directly on the trunk.
Grus Monacha
Grus monacha (白头鹤, ナベヅル), the hooded crane, is a small Vulnerable crane of Siberia and northeast China; over 80% winter at Izumi, Japan, with 9,750–13,000 mature individuals.
Long-Horned Antelope
Long-horned antelope is a descriptive name for antelope with very long horns, chiefly the scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) of the Sahara, also applied to the saola, nilgai, and eland.
Meadow (Norway)
Meadow (slåttemark, slåtteeng): Norwegian semi-natural hay meadow kept open by traditional mowing without fertilizer; critically endangered (CR) habitat, about 9,000 decares in managed sites as of 2023, under a national action plan running to 2037.
Mono silbador (Bolivia)
Mono silbador is the Bolivian Spanish name for the capuchin monkey Sapajus apella, also called martín or caí; a medium-sized, tool-using primate of Bolivian forests, Least Concern globally but Data Deficient in Bolivia.
Nubian Ibex (Wild)
Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana), a Vulnerable desert wild goat of NE Africa and Arabia; 65–75 cm tall, ~50 kg, male horns ~1 m; obligate drinker living around cliffs and waterholes.
Redlisted & Blacklisted plants
Redlisted and blacklisted plants: red lists record species at risk of extinction; black lists (notably Norway's Artsdatabanken lists) record alien, ecologically risky invasive plants, distinct from legally banned species.
Slender Tailed Mongoose
Slender tailed mongoose, or slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus, sometimes Galerella sanguinea), a widespread diurnal African mongoose with a black-tipped tail, Least Concern, ranging from Senegal to South Africa.
Tarpan-like horses
Тарпанападобныя коні (tarpan-like horses) are Konik Polski domestic horses bred in 1920s Poland to resemble the extinct tarpan; 151 were returned to Belarus's Naliboki Forest from the Netherlands in 2019 for ecosystem grazing.
Urban plants
Urban plants are the trees, shrubs, herbs, and grasses that grow within cities and towns, planted or spontaneous, forming the living base of urban green infrastructure.
White Peacock
White peacock: an all-white leucistic variant of the Indian Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), not a separate species; blue-eyed, about 1-in-1000 mutation, captive-bred worldwide; also names a Florida butterfly and a Beijing art market.
White-Naped Crane
White-naped crane (Grus vipio, マナヅル), a 125 cm Vulnerable grey crane of Northeast Asia with a white nape stripe and red face; eastern subpopulation wintering in Korea and Japan is increasing while the western Poyang Lake population declines.
Wild boar
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) is an omnivorous, herd-living wild pig found across Eurasia and North Africa, acclimatized in the Americas, and the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.