Endangered Species
33 entries in the Living Planet compendium.
Endangered Species — Era Chart
VaquitaThe smallest cetacean, critically endangered by gillnet bycatch.Amur LeopardA critically endangered leopard subspecies adapted to the cold forests of Russia and ChinaJavan RhinoThe rarest of all rhinoceroses, with a single horn and a critically endangered population.Hawksbill Sea TurtleThe reef's sponge-eating guardian with a shell once coveted by humanity.KakapoThe world's only flightless, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot, endemic to New Zealand.SaolaThe elusive 'Asian unicorn' of the Annamite forests.Northern Right WhaleThe docile, slow-moving baleen whales that were nearly hunted to extinction.Bengal TigerThe white tiger is a leucistic morph of the tiger, typically the Bengal tiger.Bluefin TunaThe first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans.Snow LeopardThe ghost of the mountains stalks silently through a world of ice and stone.African ElephantThe elephant king who brought civilization from the city to the jungle.Sea OtterThe keystone species with the thickest fur in the animal kingdom, whose recovery is a majoBlack RhinocerosThe black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a critically endangered species native to East TigerThe striped ghost of the Asian wilderness, a solitary king fighting for survival.African Forest ElephantThe elephant who brought civilization to the jungle.Sumatran OrangutanSolitary masters of the high canopy, fading as the forest floor rises to meet them.Mountain GorillaTitans of the mist: The last guardians of Africa's ancient volcanoes.Philippine EagleThe thunderous guardian of the Philippine canopy, soaring above a vanishing world.Iberian LynxA small Balkan nation with big wild spaces, from mountain forests to Mediterranean coast.Red PandaA solitary guardian of the mist-shrouded Himalayan bamboo forests.Hawksbill TurtleA rare visitor to Bu Tinah's protected reefs and mangroves.Sumatran TigerThe last surviving tiger of the Sunda Islands, isolated on Sumatra for millennia.Leatherback Sea TurtleThe ocean's ancient giant dives into the abyss to hunt jellyfish in the deep.Sunda PangolinThe Sunda pangolin: a scaly, nocturnal insectivore of Southeast Asia.Kemp's Ridley Sea TurtleThe world's most endangered sea turtle, smallest of its kind, and the only one that nests Giant PandaA bear species endemic to China, known for its black-and-white coat and bamboo diet.Cross River GorillaThe world's rarest great ape, confined to the forests of the Cameroon-Nigeria border.Yangtze Finless PorpoiseChina's only freshwater cetacean, critically endangered but showing signs of recovery.Red WolfA British animal researcher who lived among wolves and adopted a pack of abandoned wolf puAfrican Wild DogPainted wolves that hunt cooperatively and care for all members.Whooping CraneThe tallest North American bird species, named for its 'whooping' calls.Sumatran RhinoThe hairy, elusive ghost of Southeast Asia's vanishing rainforests.Green Sea TurtleAncient ocean grazers navigating vast distances to return to the sands of their birth.
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