ENDANGERED ANIMALS

List of ENDANGERED ANIMALS!

Indian Elephant
Status: Endangered
Lives in: India
Eats: Grass and other plants
Main threat: Poaching and loss of habitat
How you can help: go to the link below

Vancouver Island Marmot
Status: Critically endangered
Population: About 300
Lives on: Vancouver Island
Eats: Grasses, herbs, and flowering plants, but they also love peanut butter!
Main threat: Logging
How you can help: Donate or adopt a marmot (link below)

Mountain Gorilla
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Central Africa 
Eats: Many plants, including wild celery, bamboo, thistles, stinging nettles, and some fruits.
Main threat(s): Poaching, loss of habitat, and disease
How you can help: Donate to The Gorilla foundation (link below)

Manatee
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Coasts of West Africa, Amazon, Gulf of Mexico (florida) and the Caribbean Sea
Eats: Sea grasses
Main threat(s): Boat strikes, water temperature
How you can help: Donate or adopt a Manatee (link below) go here for other ways you can help manatees.


Giant Panda
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Bamboo forests of China
Eats: Bamboo
Main threat(s): Poaching, loss of habitat
How you can help: Donate Adopt


Tiger
Status: 3 subspecies extinct, 2 subspecies critically endangered, and 4 subspecies endangered.
Lives in: Parts of Asia.
Eats: Deer, and other meat
Main threat(s):
How you can help: Click Donate Adopt
Polar bear
Status: Vulnerable
Lives in: The Arctic (north pole) Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), Russia, Alaska and Canada (mostly upper.)
Eats: Seals, and depending on location carcasses of beluga whales, walruses, narwhals, and bowhead whales. On occasion, polar bears also kill beluga whales and young walruses.
Main threat(s): Global warming, although this cannot be proved with full confidence.



Snow leopard
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Central and South Asia (Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan)
Eats: Depending on location, they eat Sheep (bharal), and Ibex. These are their favorite meals, but they also eat smaller mammals, such as marmots, pikas, hares, and birds.
Main threat(s): Hunting, habitat loss
How you can help: Donate a small amount (bottom right of page) Donate another amount  Adopt  Spread the word! (bottom center of page) Or you can just click the 'how you can help' link located on the right of the page.Click Help save Snow leopards https://therainforestsite.greatergood.com/store/trs/item/46309/help-save-snow-leopards?source=4-2829-6



Sea Turtles
Hawksbill:
Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
Eats: Squid, Mollusks, Marine algae, crustaceans, sea urchins, fish and jellyfish.
Main threat(s): Fishing
Green:
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
Eats: Sea grasses, marine Algae, young eat jellyfish, sponges, and mollusks
Main threat(s): Hunting, pollution, entanglement, habitat loss
Loggerhead:
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean, and Mediterranean sea.
 Eats: Small fish
Main threat(s): Entanglement, habitat loss
Kemp's ridley:
Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
Eats: Jellyfish, fish ,crabs, and sea plants
Main threat(s): Hunting, pollution, entanglement, habitat loss
Leatherback: 
Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean, and Arctic circle.
Eats: Jellyfish and other softbodied sea creatures
Main threat(s): Fishing, hunting, pollution
How you can help: http://www.costaricaturtles.org/ Donate by: sending a turtle to rehab , donating a small amount (bottom right hand corner) 


Black Rhinoceros
Status: Critically endangered (East African, South-central, and West African)
Lives in: South, East, South-central, and South-eastern Africa
Eats: Leafy plants, branches, shoots, thorny wood bushes, and fruit
Main threat(s): Poaching
How you can help: go to black rhino wwf and click the 'how you can help' link and choose 'donate directly to rhino conservation' or 'spread the word!' Sign a petition! http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rhinos/?vc

River dolphins
Baiji: Status: Possibly extinct
Population: Unknown
Lives in: The Yangtze river in China
Eats: Small freshwater fish
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, fishing, entanglement, collisions, pollution
South Asian:
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, fishing, entanglement, irrigation, pollution
Indus (sub-specie of South Asian):
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Indus river in Pakistan
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, fishing, entanglement, irrigation, pollution
How you can help: Spread the word (bottom center of page) Donate Now (bottom right corner of page)
Websites:

Blue Whale
Status: Endangered
Population:
Lives in: Nearly all earth's oceans (although their numbers are decreasing)
Eats: Krill and small fish
Main threat(s): Hunting
How you can help: go to blue whale wwf and click the 'how you can help' link.

Tree Kangaroos
Eats: fruits, tree blossoms, juicy leaves or bark, ferns, and moss

Matschie's:
Status: Endangered
Lives in: North eastern New Guinea
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, hunting, logging, mining
Goodfellow's:
Status: Endangered
Lives in: New Guinea    
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, hunting
Golden Mantled:
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Northern New Guinea
Main threat(s): I actually don't know - but probably similar to that of other tree kangaroos.
Dingisio:
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Western New Guinea
Main threat(s): I don't actually know - as before, probably similar to that of the others.
Tenkile:
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: North New Guinea (Torricelli Mountains)
Main threat(s): Habitat loss 
How you can help: go to tree kangaroo wwf to see what you can do!

Markhor 
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Afghanistan, northern and central Pakistan, India, southern Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan
Eats: Leaves and tree shoots
Main threat(s): Hunting
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com.

Saiga 
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Mongolia, western Russia, Kazakhstan
Eats: Grasses
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, hunting
How you can help: go to saiga wwf to see how you can help save these weird creatures.

Island fox
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Islands of California
Eats: While deer mice are a favorite, birds, snakes, lizards, crabs and insects are also eaten. Island foxes will also opportunistically forage for plant foods and scavenge for carrion. They also eat cherries that grow on the islands.
Main threat(s): Disease, predation
How you can help: Donate to help vaccinate island foxes. (http://www1.islandfox.org/2012/05/protecting-island-foxes-from-canine.html)


Dhole
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Russian federation, Tajikistan, Thailand, Vietnam (although their range may have been made smaller due to habitat loss)
Eats: Berries, insects, and lizards, when they hunt in packs they can kill mammals as large as deer, wild pigs, wild goats, and sheep. They also eat rodents, hares, and sometimes monkeys.
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, hunting, disease
How you can help: go to dhole wwf and scroll down to the bottom to see what you can do.
Websites: http://www.manateemania.i8.com/custom_6.html

Przewalski's Horse
Status: EXTINCT IN THE WILD!! (the only przewalski's horses live in zoos, but they are trying to reintroduce them into the wild)
Lives in: China and Mongolia
Eats: Grass, buds, bark, leaves and fruit
Main threat(s): Loss of grazing habitat
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas to help the last wild horses, PLEASE email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. or post a comment in the box below 

Kakapo 
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: New Zealand
Eats: certain fruits such as that of the rimu and kahikatea and the seeds of  manuka and leatherwood. They eat the shoots of the shrub Dracophyllum. In the warmer months they drink rata nectar, while in winter they feed on sun orchid bulbs.
Main threat(s): Predation
How you can help: go to the link below to find out.
Websites: http://www.kakaporecovery.org.nz/

Sumatran Rhino 
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra (Indonesia)
Eats: Leaves, twigs, shoots, fruits
Main threat(s): Poaching, loss of habitat
How you can help: Go to How you can Help to learn how you can help the smallest rhino! Go to Adopt to adopt a Sumatran rhino! Go here to help save the Sumatran Rhino's habitat. Sign a petition! http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rhinos/?vc
Websites: http://www.savetherhino.org http://savingrhinos.org/ http://rhinoandforestfund.homeip.net/

JAVAN RHINO

Status: EXTINCT IN THE WILD!!
Lives in: Western Indonesia, and possibly Vietnam
Eats: shoots, twigs, young leaves and fallen fruit
Main threat(s): Poaching
How you can help: Go to How you can Help to learn how you can help possibly the most endangered large animal in the world! Sign a petition! http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rhinos/?vc

Brazilian Merganser
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Central-south Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina
Eats: Fish
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, silt in the rivers (due to mining, soil erosion, deforestation, etc.), tourism (tourist activity disturbs the environment), pesticides, predation, - the list goes on!
How you can help: go to http://www.wwt.org.uk/support-us to find out.

Northern white Rhino
Status: Critically endangered (like, around 4 left in a reserve in Africa, and around 8 in captivity!)
Lives in: Democratic Rep. of the Congo (formerly, their range was wider)
Eats: grasses called panicum, pennisetum, urochloa, and digiteria
Main threat(s): Poaching
How you can help: go to northernwhiterhinosWWF and scroll down to the bottom of the page to see how you can help. (Donate, Spread) Sign a petition! http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rhinos/?vc
(donate to Ol pejeta Conservancy) 

Gharial
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Parts of India and Pakistan
Eats: Young gharials eat tadpoles, shrimp, insects, and fish they find in the water. As they get older, they become more selective and will eat almost nothing but fish.
Main threat(s): Loss of Habitat
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please emailmonkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below. 

Vaquita
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Gulf of California
Eats: A variety of fish, squid, and crustaceans.
Main threat(s): Entanglement in nets
How you can help: go to How you can Help to see how you can help.

African Wild dog
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Africa - Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Mozambique (red areas on map below)  
 Eats:  zebras, wildebeests, warthogs, and cape buffalo
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, HuntingDisease
How you can help: donate at the link below

Malayan Tapir

Status: Endangered
Lives in: Sumatra, West and South Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
Eats: small branches and twigs, forest berries, forest floor mosses, grass and some leaves
Main threat(s): Deforestation, Habitat loss
How you can help: Go here to help save the Malayan Tapir's habitat.
Sloth bear

Status: Vulnerable
Lives in: Central, Southern, and North-Eastern India
Eats: Plants and insects, such as termites and bee larva
Main threat(s): I'm not sure.
How you can help: I'm not sure of that either. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below.

Fossa

Status: Vulnerable
Lives in: Madagascar
Eats: small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects
Main threat(s): Deforestation and low supply of prey
How you can help: Go here to help save the Fossa's habitat.

Philippine Eagle
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: The Philippines
Eats: monkeys, birds, snakes, monitor lizards, and even other predator birds.
Main threat(s): Deforestation, Mining, Pollution, Pesticides, Poaching
How you can help: Go to the link below to find out
Red panda
Status: Vulnerable
Lives in: China
Eats: Bamboo, berries, mushrooms, grass, bark, insects, bird eggs, bird nestlings, mice, bamboo rats, and other things found on the forest floor.
Main threat(s): Habitat loss, poaching
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below. 

Kiwi(s)
Okarito (rowi):
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: West New Zealand (south island)
Main threat(s): Predation
How you can help: go to the website below and donate. Another link to the same website (different page): http://www.savethekiwi.org.nz/how-you-can-help/general/how-you-can-help.html

North Island Brown (brown):
Status: Endangered
Lives in: North New Zealand (north island)
Main threat(s): Predation
How you can help: see Okarito. 
Websites: see Okarito.

Speke's Gazelle
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Africa
Eats: grasses
Main threat(s): I'm not sure.
How you can help: I'm not sure of that either. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below.

Rhim Gazelle
Status: Endangered
Lives in: central Sahara desert, in Africa
Eats: Grasses
Main threat(s): Hunting
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below.

Cuvier's Gazelle
Status: Endangered
Lives in: Mountains of North Africa
Eats: Grasses
Main theat(s): Hunting, Habitat loss
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below.

Asiatic Lion
Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Gir forest, Northwestern India








Main threat(s): hunting, pollution, decline of prey
How you can help:  Click

Grévy's Zebra

Status: Endangered 

Lives in: Kenya and Ethiopia

Eats: Grasses

Main threats: Competition of Resources.


Hyacinth Macaw

Status: Endangered
 Lives in: South America
  Eats: Nuts, seeds, and fruits
 Main threats: Illegal bird trade and habitat loss
Websites:    Hyacinth Macaw petition

NOTE: I saw one (it was captive) during my spring break in Maui.

- Kiara, one of the founders of the Endangered Species Blog :)
Black lion Tamarin

Status: Endangered
Lives in: South America
Main threats: Hunting (by people) and loss of habitat
Websites: none at the moment

Maned Sloth

Status: Vulnerable
Lives in: Eastern South America
Eats: Leaves and insects (and possibly small lizards)
Main threats: Hunting (by people) and loss of habitat
Websites: none at the moment

Lemur(s)

Stay tuned for more on this animal. 

AMULEOPARD

Status: Critically Endangered (30 - 40 remaining in the wild!)
Lives in: South Western Russia
Eats: Mostly Roe deer, Silka deer, Musk deer, wild boar, hares, and badgers
Main threat(s): Poaching, Loss of habitat (forests), and inbreeding.
How you can help: Go here to help save the Amur Leopard's habitat. Adopt a leopard  How you can help  Donate (paypal)  Donate 2 Petition  



Radiated Tortoise 

Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: Madagascar
Eats: Grasses, fruit, and other plants
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, Hunting (by people for food), and the illegal pet trade.
Websites: Adopt (Durell Wildlife)  

Grenada Dove

Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: The island of Grenada, West Indies
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, Predation 
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below

Puerto Rican Parrot
Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: Eastern Puerto Rico
Eats: Fruits, anthey are known to also eat young leaves, seeds and flowers
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, illegal pet trade, hunting, and predation
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below

Black Crested Gibbon

Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: Southwestern China, Northwestern Laos, and Northern Vietnam


Eats: Fruit (fruit is about 75 % of diet), and also leaves, flowers, seeds, tree bark, tender plant shoots, insects, spiders, bird eggs, and small birds.
Main threat(s): Loss of habitat, Hunting, and illegal trade
How you can help: I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below
  

Yellow-eyed Penguin

Status: Endangered
Lives in: Southern New Zealand
Eats: Arrow squid, and fish such as blue cod, red cod, opalfish, and New Zealand blueback sprat (Nototodarus sloanii)
Main threat(s): Loss of Habitat, and Predation


Togian Babirusa
Status: Endangered
Lives in: the Togian islands of Indonesia. 
Eats: Low growing plants and shrubs
Main threat(s): Hunting, deforestation
How you can help: Go here to learn how you can help save the Babirusa's habitat

Hawaiian Monk Seal

Status: Critically Endangered
Lives in: the islands of Hawaii
Eats: spiny lobster, flatfish, small reef fish, larval fish, and octopus.
Main threats:

  • Tiger sharks and Galapagos sharks (predation)
  • Humans on beaches (they scare away seals that want to sleep, molt, or care for their pups on the beach. Whenever this happens, they are put in peril. For one example, they are then vulnerable to sharks.)
  • Entanglement in fishing lines, nets, and marine debris (all these things can cause monk seals to drown)
  • Starvation (no one is sure why this happens)

How you can help: 

  • If you are on vacation in Hawaii, and on the rare occasion, spot a monk seal, keep at least 150 feet away from it (as far as possible!). If there are no ropes roping off the area surrounding the seal, call 1-888-256-980 to report your sighting so volunteers can rope off the area and stop people from approaching it. If you see people trying to approach a monk seal, tell them to stop! and back away. When you are forced to remain close to the animal, or are taking a few shots (at a distance!!) walk behind the seal, not between it and the water. Keep your dogs, and other's dogs (not directly approach another persons dog without the consent of the owner - instead, calmly ask the owner to leash the dog and back away), away from the seal (I suggest more than 150 feet). Dogs should be leashed or restrained on beaches where seals have been spotted.
  • Discourage others from approaching or harassing seals.
  • When fishing, keep track of all your nets and lines. Do not leave fishing nets or lines (or any trash!!) behind. This could seriously injure, or even kill, a Hawaiian Monk Seal, Sea Turtle, or other animal.
  • If you are swimming, and on the rare occasion spot a seal in the waters approaching you, calmly exit the water. Do not look at the seal or alarm or harass it in any way. Never feed the seals.
  • Avoid releasing helium balloons into the sky. These can end up in the ocean, which is, of course, where Hawaiian Monk Seals, Sea Turtles, and many other endangered species live!
NOTE: I SAW ONE!!! (In Maui when I was on spring break) 

- Kiara, one of the founders of the Endangered Species Blog :)


Bog Turtle

Status: Critically endangered
Lives in: Eastern United States
Main threats: Illegal pet trade, changes to habitat, disease, predation
Eats: seeds, berries, insects, slugs, worms, crayfish, frogs, snakes, snails, and carrion
How you can help:  I'm not sure. If anyone has any ideas, please email monkeysrockthejungle@gmail.com. Or post a comment in the box below




Check back once and a while to see the newly listed animals!

Any comments? Please leave them in the comment box. We appreciate your feedback.

If you have any ideas about how else we can help save the endangered species, please contact us or leave a comment in the box.

If you have any other endangered species you would like added to the list, please contact us or leave the name of the species in the comment box below and we will add it to the ever-growing list. 

We hope, together, we can save the endangered animals of the world!

The Endangered Species Club Founders

4 comments:

  1. Hi, thanks for spreading the word about endangered species! That's what I'm doing at WWF in Switzerland, too. We are working really hard to protect animals and their habitats around the world. This is a great way to help! Keep it up! :)

    -Alona, Species Communications Manager, WWF International

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  2. Thanks! I feel like I want to save ALL the Endangered Species of the world! :D

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  3. Hi Everyone,

    There is this GREAT website called Avaaz, where you sign petitions for so many important causes. There is one about the Maui dolphin, only 55 remain! :( These causes are SO important!

    Yeah, I feel like that, too, kiara.

    Sophie

    http://www.avaaz.org/en/

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    1. Thank you Sophie :)
      I will also be sure to add the Maui Dolphin to our growing list.
      I recently acquired an endangered species book, entitled 100 under 100 by Scott Leslie. (It includes the Maui Dolphin) It is very informative. If anyone wants to know more about endangered species, be sure to check out this book.
      I will also add an excerpt of a paragraph or two out of the book. Stay tuned for more updates!

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