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Page last updated at 00:22 GMT, Tuesday, 3 November 2009

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In pictures: Threatened species

The Kihansi Spray Toad was listed as critically endangered in last year's Red List. This year it is categorised as extinct in the wild. The species was known only from the Kihansi Falls, Tanzania, where there was formerly a population of 17,000.

The Giant Jewel is known from a few areas in south-east Nigeria and south-west Cameroon. The IUCN says it is likely being threatened by forest destruction through selective logging and agricultural expansion.

The Panay Monitor Lizard is endemic to the island of Panay in the Philippines. The lizard feeds largely on fruit, but degradation of its lowland forest habitat is thought to pose a serious threat to the species.

The spectacular Queen of the Andes plant occurs in the Andes mountains of Peru and Bolivia. There is very little genetic variability between populations. It is thought to lack enough variability to adapt to both human pressure and climate change.

Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog (Brad Wilson)

Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog was described in 2008. But it enters the Red List this year as a critically endangered species. The IUCN says it could be threatened by the chytrid fungus disease, which is present in the area where this species occurs.

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