UCSC Rare Species Fact Sheets

The rich biodiversity found on the UCSC campus includes several rare species, including some that have been found nowhere else on Earth.

With a few exceptions, each of the species listed below has some kind of conservation status on a federal, state, or international level. These range from the IUCN Red List to the Federal Endangered Species Act to the California Endangered Species Act to the California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Rankings to other state, federal, or international rankings. 

Click on species names below to download pdfs created by UCSC undergraduate students during a remote-learning internship during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021 academic year).

Cougar tracks along an early morning fire road