Conservation Threats

Human Disturbance

Recreation, tourism, and human presence disrupting wildlife behavior and breeding

1,564 Animals

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Southeastern Blueberry Bee

The blueberry's native buzz specialist

Ashy Mining Bee

Spring's ashen-striped soil miner

Mason Bee

Mud-built nurseries, mighty pollinators

Ivy Bee

Autumn's ivy-powered plasterer bee

Hairy-footed Flower Bee

Spring's orange-booted speedster

Furrow Bee

Small bees, big pollination power

Tawny Mining Bee

Spring's ginger miner of the garden

Milkweed aphids

Golden sap-sipper of milkweed

Blacktip Shark

Black-tipped fins, built for speed.

Bombardier Beetle

Tiny beetle, big chemical comeback

Sea Trout

One fish, two worlds

Dragon Snake (Javan Tubercle Snake, Javan Mudsnake)

Dragon-hide scales in a leaf-litter life

Antiguan Racer Snake

Antigua's comeback snake

Stromatolite

Rocks built by microbes, for eons

Kamehameha Butterfly

Hawaii's royal forest flyer

Disco Clam

Reef crevice clam with a strobe show

Eelpout

Cold seas, long fins, deep lives

Golden Trout

The Sierra's living gold

Blowfly

Nature's cleanup crew in metallic armor

Eastern Cottontail

Edge-habitat sprinter with a cotton tail

Ocean Pout

Cold-water bottom dweller with antifreeze

Black Bass

Built for the strike, born to guard

Western Rattlesnake (Northern Pacific Rattlesnake)

Heat-sensing hunter of the Northwest

Ornate Black-Tailed Rattlesnake

Dark tail, silent ambush, loud warning.

Human Disturbance