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ENDANGERED

Save the Mexican axolotl

I am under the Special Protection category of the Mexican government.
Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, I am also on the CITES
(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora) list. But this doesn’t ensure my protection. Although people are finding
ways to save me, a lot more needs to be done quickly, otherwise my family and
I will be gone forever.

I live in the canals and lakes near Mexico ), 125–130 g (femal Blast from the
City, and some say that less than a hundred past

of my brothers and sisters survive in the The Mexican axolotl is
wild. I am the Mexican axolotl, a salamander, among the first four earliest

and my name means water dog. families of salamanders.
They came into the world
ength: 20—30 cm ; Weight: 60—227 g (male
even before koalas and
dolphins.

Bio e); Lifespan: 10–15 years
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