Monday, 2 September 2013

Endangered Species

An endangered species is a species of organisms facing a very high risk of extinction.

Species losses have always been a natural part of life. However, through habitat destruction, species introductions, pollution, over-exploitation and climate change, we are now facing our greatest extinction crisis since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago. And as we diminish the world’s wealth of plants and animals, we are also creating less functional landscapes that are unable to satisfy human needs – for food, fuel, medicines and other commercial products – or provide vital ecological services.

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Endangered Species

COMMON NAMESCIENTIFIC NAMECONSERVATION STATUS 
Amur LeopardPanthera pardus orientalisCritically Endangered
Black RhinoDiceros bicornisCritically Endangered
Cross River GorillaGorilla gorilla diehliCritically Endangered
Hawksbill TurtleEretmochelys imbricataCritically Endangered
Javan RhinoRhinoceros sondaicusCritically Endangered
Leatherback TurtleDermochelys coriaceaCritically Endangered
Mountain GorillaGorilla beringei beringeiCritically Endangered
SaolaPseudoryx nghetinhensisCritically Endangered
South China TigerPanthera tigris amoyensisCritically Endangered
Sumatran ElephantElephas maximus sumatranusCritically Endangered
Sumatran OrangutanPongo abeliiCritically Endangered
Sumatran RhinoDicerorhinus sumatrensisCritically Endangered
Sumatran TigerPanthera tigris sumatraeCritically Endangered
VaquitaPhocoena sinusCritically Endangered
Western Lowland GorillaGorilla gorilla gorillaCritically Endangered
Yangtze Finless PorpoiseNeophocaena asiaeorientalis ssp. asiaeorientalisCritically Endangered
African Wild DogLycaon pictusEndangered
Amur TigerPanthera tigris altaicaEndangered
Asian ElephantElephas maximus indicusEndangered
Bengal TigerPanthera tigris tigrisEndangered
Black Spider MonkeyAteles paniscusEndangered
Black-footed FerretMustela nigripesEndangered
Blue WhaleBalaenoptera musculusEndangered
Bluefin TunaThunnus sppEndangered
BonoboPan paniscusEndangered
Bornean OrangutanPongo pygmaeusEndangered
Borneo Pygmy ElephantElephas maximus borneensisEndangered
ChimpanzeePan troglodytesEndangered
Eastern Lowland GorillaGorilla beringei graueriEndangered
Fin WhaleBalaenoptera physalusEndangered
Galápagos PenguinSpheniscus mendiculusEndangered
Ganges River DolphinPlatanista gangetica gangeticaEndangered
Giant PandaAiluropoda melanoleucaEndangered
Green TurtleChelonia mydasEndangered
Hector's DolphinCephalorhynchus hectoriEndangered
Humphead WrasseCheilinus undulatusEndangered
Indian ElephantElephas maximus indicusEndangered
Indochinese TigerPanthera tigris corbettiEndangered
Indus River DolphinPlatanista minorEndangered
Loggerhead TurtleCaretta carettaEndangered
Malayan TigerPanthera tigris jacksoniEndangered
North Atlantic Right WhaleEubalaena glacialisEndangered
OrangutanPongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeusEndangered
Sea LionsZalophus wollebaekiEndangered
Sei WhaleBalaenoptera borealisEndangered
Snow LeopardPanthera unciaEndangered
Sri Lankan ElephantElephas maximus maximusEndangered
TigerEndangered
WhaleBalaenoptera, Balaena, Eschrichtius, and EubalaenEndangered
African ElephantLoxodonta africanaVulnerable