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- Dozens of sea turtles with hypothermia rescued in Cape Cod
- Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections
- Wolves To Lose Endangered Status Within 60 days, First Time Congress Has Taken A Species Off List
- Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve
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- Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus) - WisconsinCounties with Mapped NHI Occurrences. Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus), listed as Endangered in Wisconsin, prefers sandy oak savannas, sand prairies, old fields with sandy soils, and woodland edges around and within all of these habitats. Glass lizards overwinter in burrows they create by forcing their bodies through lose sandy soils.
- Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) - WisconsinEastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus) is a State Endangered Species and a Federally Threatened Species.This rattlesnake is strongly associated with floodplain habitats along medium to large rivers, especially near river confluences, where they primarily occupy open canopy wetlands, such as sedge meadows, fresh wet meadows, shrub-carrs, and adjacent upland prairies, floodplain forests, and ...
- Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi) - WisconsinPROTECTING WISCONSIN'S BIODIVERSITY. Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi), listed as Endangered in Wisconsin, prefers ponds, lakes, and a variety of habitats along and adjacent to streams and rivers including marshes, fens, sedge meadows, low prairies, and exposed mud flats. This species may breed in no or low-flow areas of streams and ...
- Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) - WisconsinOrnate box turtles may be active from early-March through mid-November. They nest in early-June and young typically hatch in August or early-September, although some hatchlings emerge the following spring. See the species guidance document for avoidance measures and management guidance from the Natural Heritage Conservation Program. Expand All.
- Protecting Wisconsin's rare animals | | Wisconsin DNRThe animals (both vertebrates and invertebrates) on Wisconsin's Natural Heritage Working List are species known or suspected to be rare in the state. It includes Species of Greatest Conservation Need that are legally designated as "endangered" or "threatened," as well as species in the advisory "special concern" category.
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