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Save Reptiles - They are reaching to extinction!

According to a study by 350 experts, almost one-fifth of the world's 8,000 species of lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodiles and other reptiles are threatened with extinction. The risk of extinction has, however, been unevenly distributed in the extremely heterogeneous group of animals. According to the newspaper, 45% of all freshwater turtles are threatened with extinction, perhaps because they are traded on international markets. The study, published by the Zoological Society of London under the IUCN Survival Commission, is the first of its kind to summarize the global conservation status of reptiles and to use 1,500 reptiles chosen at random around the world. Of the estimated 19% of endangered reptiles, 12% are classified as critical, 41% are endangered and 47% are endangered. Three species were extinct. One, a jungle lizard, Ameiva Vittata, was only caught in part of Bolivia. In Haiti, six of the nine types of anolisaxes included in this study are at increased risk of ex