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Endangered Orchid on the Edge. More than 200 species of orchids blossom in North America. Their names are as mesmerizing as their flowers: Dragonâs mouth. Threebirds orchid.Yellow ladyâs slipper. But unlike their showy cousins in the tropics, the orchids of the temperate zone often flower unseen.More than half are endangered or threatened somewhere in their native range.o germinate and grow, an orchid seed needs to land on moist soil with just the right fungus nearby. Its relationship with the fungus enables the orchid to grow into a microscopic protocorm, and later grow into a seedling. Gradually the fungi start to penetrate its cells and form coils of hyphae called pelotons.
Conservation Status. Over the last half-century, Walia Ibex has been considered one of the most endangered ungulates in the world (Nievergelt, 1990). Today, this species is deemed critically endangered primarily because of the very small population left in the wild.apra walie, or the Walia Ibex, is found exclusively in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Nearly all of the remaining population resides along 25 kilometers of the northern escarpment in the Simien Mountains National Park (Massicot, 2001). 1  Biogeographic Regions. 2  ethiopian. 3  native.