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The national bird of Chile is the Andean condor [17] The total avifauna species in Chile as reported by BirdLife International, as of 2012, number 530, including 14 endemic species (two breeding in Chile), 37 globally threatened species, and 7 introduced species. [18] The globally endangered, endemic and introduced species are as follows: [18]
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Chile. As of January 2011, there are 152 mammal species listed for Chile , of which four are critically endangered , eight are endangered, eight are vulnerable, and eleven are near threatened.
As of 2001, 16 species of mammals in a total of 91 were considered endangered. Of 296 breeding bird species, 18 were threatened with extinction. Also threatened were four types of freshwater fish and 268 plant species. [4] From 2013 to at least 2023 Chile has been the country in the world with most registered fatal whale collisions with ships.
It is threatened foremost by logging, which entails the spread of pine forest plantations and agriculture, particularly in central Chile. [4] In 1997 to 1998, two out of five radio-collared kodkods were killed on Chiloé Island after raiding chicken coops. [17]
The southern pudu (Pudu puda, Mapudungun püdü or püdu, [4] Spanish: pudú, Spanish pronunciation:) is a species of South American deer native to the Valdivian temperate forests of south-central Chile and adjacent Argentina. It is classified as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red List. [1]
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is especially threatened, as the beavers are destroying long-protected trees. [citation needed] The animals have spread beyond Tierra del Fuego itself into the Brunswick Peninsula of Chile, and the government fears further penetration into continental South America. [6]
Rhinella arunco is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae that is endemic to Chile. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, open excavations, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat ...