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What meant by endangered species ?

What is IUCN Red List ?

10 Most Endangered Animals List And Causes

Ways To Prevent

What meant by endangered species ?

An endangered species is a native species that faces a significant risk of extinction in the near future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. Such species may be declining in number due to threats such as habitat destruction, climate change, or pressure from invasive species.

What is IUCN Red List ?

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive

inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

Headquarters Region served Official languages Parent organization United Kingdom International English International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission, Birdlife International, Conservation International, NatureServe, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Royal Botanic Gardens, Texas A&M University, Sapienza University of Rome, Zoological Society of London, Wildscreen http://www.iucnredlist.org

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The percentage of species in several groups which are listed as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable on the 2007 IUCN Red List.

GRAPH FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES IN YEAR 1998 AND 2012

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10 Most Endangered Animals List And Causes

The most critically endangered animals is the ivorybilled woodpecker, which livesor livedin the Southeastern part of the US as well as Cuba. This huge woodpecker was considered extinct until 2004, when a handful of tantalizing reports of sightings in Arkansas and Florida began to trickle in. However, definitive proof for the ivory-bills continued existence has remained elusive, and if a population does exist, it is likely to be tiny and extremely vulnerable. The ivory-billed woodpecker owes its near- or complete extinction to habitat loss (logging) as well as over-exploitation by humans, who hunted it for its feathers.

IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER

The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is a very rare leopard

subspecies that lives only in the remote

and snowy northern forests of eastern Russians Primorye region. Its former range included Korea and northern China, but the Amur leopard is now extinct in those countries. A 2007 census counted only 14-20 adult Amur leopards and 5-6 cubs. Threats facing the species include habitat loss due to logging, road building and encroaching civilization, poaching (illegal hunting) and global climate change.

AMUR LEOPARD

The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is the most endangered of the worlds five rhinoceros species, with an estimated 40-60 animals remaining on the western tip of the Island of Java (Indonesia) in Ujung Kulon National Park.

The last member of another tiny population in Vietnams Cat Tien National Park was killed by poachers in 2011.

The water- and swamp-loving Javan rhinoceros formerly ranged throughout Southeast Asia and Indonesia, but has been hunted to near-extinction for its horn, which is used to make Asian folk medicines.

JAVAN RHINOCEROS

Although it is now protected, it may not have a large-enough breeding population to prevent the species from going extinct.

It is very difficult to say that one lemur species is more endangered than another.

There are around 100 species of these primates, all of which live on the Island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa.

Virtually all of them are declining dramatically in population, mostly because of habitat loss due to logging in

THE NORTHERN SPORTIVE LEMUR

the forests where they livebut also because of illegal hunting. Many lemur species are listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The most endangered of all the worlds whale species, the northern right whale (Eubalena glacialis) numbers around 350 individuals that travel the Atlantic coasts of Canada and the US.

During the whaling days of the 19th century, the right whale got its name because whalers considered it the right whale to kill, as it not only was full of valuable whale oil, but it floated after it was dead, which made it easy to handle and process.

As a result, it was driven to near extinction. Although the right whale is now protected, its small remnant population continues to suffer losses due to entanglements in commercial fishing gear.

NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE

Global climate change, which can affect the availability of the tiny crustaceans on which right whales feed, may prove to be another serious threat to their recovery.

There are two lowland gorillas native to West Africa: the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), which is the most numerous of the four gorilla subspecies, with over 100,000 individuals in the wild, and the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla diehli), of which only a tiny population of a few hundred remains.

Both are listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered

because of the fact that their populations have

declined by over 60 percent during the past 25 yearsand are projected to continue dropping over the coming decades.

WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLA

Causes for the increasing scarcity include habitat loss and illegal commercial hunting by poachers, who sell gorillas for food in West African markets. But the largest killer of gorillas has been a deadly illnessthe incurable ebola viruswhich has ended the lives of up to 90 percent of these great apes in some forest areas.

The leatherback sea turtle (Demochelys coriacea) is the earths biggest turtle and has the largest range of any species.

The leatherback is also critically endangered. According to the IUCN, in 1982 there were around 115,000 adult female leatherback turtles in the world; just 14 years later, there were only 20,000 to 30,000and the population has continued to plummet.

The leatherbacks problems include theft of its eggs by humans, illegal hunting and nestinghabitat loss due to beach development, and the erosion of beaches due to global climate change.

LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE

In addition, leatherbacks sometimes die after ingesting plastic debris they find floating in the ocean, which they mistake for food such as jellyfish.

The Amur, or Siberian, tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is the largest big cat in the world, weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds).

Unlike the other tiger subspecies, which are jungledwellers, the Amur tiger lives in the birch forests of Russias frigid and snowy Far East, and formerly inhabited the colder regions of China and Korea.

In fact, the animal thrives in winter temperatures that often drop to -50 degrees fahrenheit (-45 celsius).

Due to relentless hunting, Russias tiger population had dropped to around 40 individuals by the 1930s.

SIBERIAN TIGER

Since then, the animal has been protected, and its numbers have rebounded to around 500. However, it is still threatened by illegal hunting and habitat loss in the form of logging and development.

The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianas) is the worlds largest amphibian, growing to lengths of up to 6 feet.

It used to be common throughout central, southwestern and southern China, where it lives in streams in the forested hills and lays up to 500 eggs at a time in underwater burrows guarded by the male.

However, the Chinese giant salamander has now almost completely disappeared due to its over-exploitation as a food source.

CHINESE GIANT SALAMANDER

The little dodo bird goes by other names as well, including the tooth-billed pigeon, and in its native Samoa, the Manumea bird.

Although just 12 inches (31 cm) in length, the Manumea is, in fact, a relative of the famous big dodo bird, which lived on the Island of Mauritius until it was hunted to extinction some 400 years ago.

Unfortunately, extinction threatens the little dodo as well: A few hundred individuals remain on two Samoan islands, and they are disappearing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss and illegal hunting.

Ive chosen the little dodo for inclusion on the Top 10 list because i think that saving this bird would be a fitting way to at least partially atone for the extinction of its larger cousin.

THE LITTLE DODO BIRD

Ways to prevent :
1. 2. 3. Learn about endangered species in your area. Visit a national wildlife refuge, park, zoo or other open space. Provide habitat for wildlife by planting native vegetation in your yard. The spread of non-native species has greatly impacted native populations around the world. Invasive species compete with native species for resources and habitat. They can even prey on native species directly, forcing native species toward extinction. 4. Minimize use of herbicides and pesticides. Pesticides may keep yards looking nice, but they are in fact hazardous pollutants that affect wildlife at many levels. Many herbicides and pesticides take a long time to degrade, and build up in the soils or throughout the food chain. Some groups of animals such as amphibians are particularly vulnerable to these chemical pollutants and suffer greatly as a result of the high levels of herbicides and pesticides in their habitat. 5. Recycle. Buy recycled paper to protect forest species. Recycle your cell phones, because a mineral used in cell phones and other electronics is mined in gorilla habitat.

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Place decals on windows to deter bird collisions. Slow down when driving.

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Avoid supporting the market in illegal wildlife including: tortoiseshell, ivory and coral.
Overseas trips can be exciting and fun, and everyone wants a souvenir. But sometimes the souvenirs are made from species nearing extinction. Avoid supporting the market in illegal wildlife, including tortoiseshell, ivory and coral. Also, be careful of products including fur from tigers, polar bears, sea otters and other endangered wildlife, crocodile skin, live monkeys or apes, most live birds including parrots, macaws, cockatoos and finches, some live snakes, turtles and lizards, some orchids, cacti and cycads, medicinal products made from rhinos, tiger or Asiatic black bear.

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Report any harassment or shooting of threatened and endangered species to your local state or federal wildlife enforcement office.

10.Protect wildlife habitat.

Laws regarding on endangered animals

Malaysia officials are urged to enforce its International Trade in Endangered Species Act 2008, a legislation that regulates international trade of wild animals and plants. Under Section 12 of the Act, any person who is found in possession of a scheduled species commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of up to RM 1 million, or to imprisonment for a term of up to seven years.

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