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But invasive species such as goats, pigs, and fire ants, are threatening them, experts said.

So is human invasion, which is also endangering some 85 plant species on the islands due to housing development, tourism, and agriculture.

Surprisingly, 11 species previously considered extinct were rediscovered last year – including the fabulous green sphinx moth found in Hawaii.

The Red List, produced by a network of some 7,000 experts working in almost every country in the world, found that 762 species have disappeared over the last 500 years, with a further 58 known only in artificial settings, such as zoos.

The group has examined some 18,000 species and subspecies around the globe.

Earth is home to an estimated 14 million species, and only 1.75 million have been documented.

“Human activities may be the main threat to the world’s species, but humans can also help them recover,” said Steiner.

The Western Australian Opposition has accused the Department of Fisheries of offering some support for the introduction of predatory fish species from eastern states.

He says it is acknowledged the species are aggressive predators, and Mr Masters wants the department to take a tougher stance on keeping them out of Western Australian waterways.

"The ability for at least that species, and potentially the other two, to continue to do well should they be introduced into WA is real and as I say the fisheries department acknowledge that they will eat marron, that they will eat other fish," he said.

Next day we were lunching far out in the country, on the porch of a reforestation institute that over the years had planted hundreds of acres of various species of trees on the rolling hills that surround the rustic headquarters building.

"Hopefully the bitterns in Suffolk will be able to re-colonise, then if we do lose this habitat, we don't lose the species," Mr Barthorpe said.

Each order is followed by a pregnant pause as every animal reflects that the newcomer is very different from himself in both species and chosen breakfast.

Although the rhymes of ''Panda'' are saddled with a few less-than-euphonious species -- like ''macaroni penguin,'' for example -- Carle's animals are dazzling confections of cut and torn, painted and patterned tissue paper.

Not just a birdie While on the subject of endangered species, yes, that was a bald eagle hanging out at Streator Country Club a couple of weeks ago.

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