Animals and Plants

The Gila, located at the meeting of the Rocky and Sierra Madre mountains and the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts, is home to abundant and diverse wildlife species. 

• Conservatively, at least 575 species of plants and animals
• 453 individual vertebrate species
• 15 federally threatened, endangered, or candidate species
• 53 species of conservation concern
• 301 bird species
• 11 amphibians
• 24 fish
• 16 insect and 51 plant species of management concern
• 93 mammals
• 57 reptiles
• 21 snails
• 18 potential natural vegetation types