As the NH State Wildlife Action Plan enters its second decade, the need to protect local species from climate change, pollution and habitat destruction continues. These eight species and others facing ongoing threats represent a small slice of the state’s delicate ecosystem.

Two of Antarctica's most iconic animals are officially considered Endangered. They join a lengthy list of over 48,600 plant and animal species on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, following irreversible population declines caused by changes in sea ice.

Over 200 species of flora and fauna go extinct daily. Some of these species go extinct before they are discovered. Others disappear because they are too elusive, leaving researchers at a loss for the best practices to study them.

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 years. But in 2023, the striped lizard was rediscovered and became a nationally listed threatened species in the same year.