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Website seeking 'most wanted' photos and videos of vanishing species Jeremy Hance mongabay.com March 04, 2010 Now the organization is pushing its mission—to make photos and film of the Earth's species available to everyone in order to benefit education and conservation—one step further. It has set a goal to find images of the world's 17,000 most endangered species according to IUCN Red List. Of course, while ARKive already has images and film of some of these species, many remain elusive and almost wholly unknown. "By revealing what these species actually look like, we hope to shine the spotlight on the many thousands of relatively obscure and largely neglected plants and animals threatened with extinction, thereby raising their public profile and, ultimately, helping to ensure their conservation," the ARKive website reads. ARKive has created an online list of its 'most-wanted' species for photographs and films. The organization is asking for help from anyone, whether a professional photographer or a lucky tourist with a camera. To see ARKive's list: Most Wanted Species Related articles Extinct animals are quickly forgotten: the baiji and shifting baselines Humans push half of the world's primates toward extinction, lemurs in particular trouble Birder captures first footage ever of long whiskered owlet, one of the world's rarest birds (02/04/2010) It was any birders dream come true: not only to see one of the world's rarest birds, but to discover a new unknown population. Israeli birder, Shachar Alterman, was surveying birds with the UK organization Neotropical Primate Conservation in Peruvian cloud forest when he heard and then saw the long whiskered owlet.
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