Luanda, Angola.- The black rhino, the Carmelite hyena and the Cape penguin were added to the species listed as extinct in Angola and are now the newest names on its red list.

The list published in the Journal of the Republic draws attention to other environmental damages such as the threat to other representatives of the flora and fauna, especially the black lever, a giant sable antelope, national symbol which lives in the forested regions of the central part of the country.

The statistics show 19 affected mammals, three reptiles, including the leatherback sea turtle, four birds and three fishes.

The red list is made up of extinct species, species endangered by extinction and, thirdly, vulnerable species, including 31 bird species, 18 mammals and reptiles, crustaceans, fishes, insects and flora.

Poaching, illegal fishing, fragmentation and habitat deterioration, as well as nest destruction, endemics, pollution, unsustainable resource exploitation and urbanization are among the causes mentioned by Environment Minister Paula Coelho in the published report.

For several sources, the overexploitation of the country’s timber resources endangered the existence of species such as the kapok, ebony, black wood, Cabinda wood and iron wood.

In addition, there is the Welwitschia Mirabilis, a flower which only blooms at the Namibe desert.