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Endangered species

File:Acinonyx jubatus walking edit.jpg
A cheetah is an example of an endangered animal

An endangered species is a group of animals or plants which is threatened by becoming extinct. This could happen because there are few of that animal left, its predators have grown in number, or the climate that it lives in is changing, or the places it lives in have been destroyed.

Conservation status
Risk of extinction
Extinction

Extinct
Extinct in the Wild

Threatened

Critically Endangered
Endangered
Vulnerable
Threatened

Lower risk

Conservation Dependent
Near Threatened
Least Concern

See also

World Conservation Union
IUCN Red List

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has worked out that endangered species are 40% of all organisms.[1]

How to get rid of endangered species

Further information: IUCN Red List

Many countries have laws to protect these plants and animals. These laws, if obeyed, can save species by stopping hunting, land development or making parks and reserves. Poaching and other illegal activities, however, can still destroy them.

Only a few plants and animals at risk of extinction, mostly vertebrates, are put on the lists and get legal protection. Many more species become extinct, or will become extinct, without people knowing about it.

Mammal

This is a list of some mammals that are endangered. They include:

Birds

Endangered birds include:

Endangered Species Media

  • Golden lion tamarin portrait3.jpg

    Golden lion tamarin, an endemic and one of the endangered species saved from extinction in Brazil

  • Trends in Endangered Species- A Visual Representation of Plant and Animal Conservation in Brazil (2014-2022).pdf

    A visual representation of the declining percentages of endangered plant and animal species in Brazil from 2014 to 2022. The sidebar graph highlights the contrast between plant and animal conservation efforts.

  • Gymnogyps californianus -Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, California, USA -flying-8.jpg

    The California condor is a critically endangered species. Note the wing tags used for population monitoring.

  • Pusa hispida saimensis ca 1956.jpg

    Photo of Pusa hispida saimensis, also known as Saimaa ringed seal, from 1956. Living only in Lake Saimaa, Finland, Saimaa ringed seals are among the most endangered seals in the world, having a total population of only about 400 individuals.

  • Panthera tigris altaica 13 - Buffalo Zoo.jpg

    The Siberian tiger is an Endangered (EN) tiger subspecies. Three tiger subspecies are already extinct (see List of carnivorans by population).

  • AraGlaucogularisFull.jpg

    Blue-throated macaw, a critically endangered bird

  • BrownSpiderMonkey (edit2).jpg

    Brown spider monkey, a critically endangered mammal

  • Siamese Crocodiles.JPG

    Siamese crocodile, a critically endangered reptile

  • Nicrophorus americanus - Sankt-Peterburg.jpg

    American burying beetle, an endangered species of insect

  • Lepidochelys kempii.jpg

    Kemp's ridley sea turtle, a critically endangered reptile

Related pages

Further reading

References

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