We share Monterey County with hundreds of animals and plant species. 

Because Monterey County has failed to adequately protect them we have caused the imperilment of some forty nine (49) animal species and 19 trees and plants to the point of needing official protection by Federal and State laws. 

Fortunately these 68 species have fortunately survived the many years-long, anti-animal protection process of fighting for official listing under Federal and State Endangered Species Acts, Fully Protected laws and Special Status species lists. 

There's More 

Experts know of many more threatened local species (some 33 animal species alone) which do not have any official protection1, and have no doubt there are many other species we will never know of before we cause them to go extinct - gone forever. 

We may eventually clean up our pollution and find new water sources - but when an animal goes extinct - it is gone from our planet, gone our solar system, gone from our galaxy - forever. 

1. Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos - extirpated)
2. Jaguar (Panthera onca - extirpated)
3. Mountain Lion (felis concolor)
4. Pacific Fisher (Martes pennanti pacifica)
5. River Otter (Lontra canadensis)
6. Beavers (Castor canadensis)
7. Wolverine (Gulo gulo)
8. American Badger (Taxidea taxus) 
9. Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
10. Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
11. Tule Elk (Cervus nannodes)
12. Pronghorn Antelope (Antilocapra americana)
13. Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) 
14. San Joaquin Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) 
15. San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni)
16. Monterey Dusky-Footed Woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes luciana)
17. Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens)
18. Monterey Ornate Shrew (Sorex ornatus salarius)

 

 
 
 

1. "More than 700 threatened [animal] species remain completely unprotected." Conservation International, September 11, 2003 (223 bird, 140 mammal and 346 amphibian species)