Pantanal | Dispatches
DAY 2: Activities

The objective of this activity is to improve students' Internet skills while learning about endangered species found in the Pantanal.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is a leading group in assessing the conservation status of species. They provide a Red List of Threatened Species that gauges how critically species are threatened. The main categories they use are extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, vulnerable, and lower risk. To see what these specific categories mean see the IUCN website, http://www.redlist.org/info/categories_criteria.html.

Using the IUCN website search the following list of Pantanal species to determine if they are threatened, and if so, to what degree. (Search using http://www.redlist.org/search/search-basic.html with the species' common name.)

1. Jaguar


2. Hyacinth Macaw


3. Black Howler Monkey


4. Toucan


5. Greater Rhea


6. Bush Dog


7. Crowned Eagle


8. Pampas Deer


9. Brazilian Tapir


10. White-Lipped Peccary


11. Giant Armadillo


12. Maned Wolf


13. Giant Otter


14. Giant Anteater


15. Oncilla