Did you know ...

• the Djibouti Francolin, a critically endangered species of bird, is only known from two isolated locations in Djibouti?
• the court decision in Palila v. Hawaii saved the Palila (pictured), a critically endangered honeycreeper, from possible extinction?
• the wild population of the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater comprises fewer than 100 birds and is largely restricted to the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve?
• the critically endangered Golden White-eye (pictured) of Saipan is threatened by a snake that eliminated practically all the forest birds of nearby Guam?
• the "orange tooth" fungus, Hydnellum aurantiacum, is considered critically endangered in the United Kingdom?
• Pleurotus nebrodensis was declared to be a critically endangered mushroom in Sicily by the IUCN?
• one of only two natural populations of the critically endangered Kanab ambersnail (pictured) is threatened by discharges from the Glen Canyon Dam?
• Christian Jouanin, a French ornithologist, has described three species of birds, including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin?