Showing posts with label ANIMALS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANIMALS. Show all posts
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Top 10 Endangered Animals in the World
1. Black Rhino
Black rhinos are from southern and eastern Africa. Since 1970, the Black Rhino population has declined by 90% to less than 3,000. They are killed primarily for their horns. Black rhinoceros hunting has been banned for 20 years, but until now there are many people who hunt black rhino.
2. Polar Bear
Polar Bear is one of a dwindling animal. Poaching and global warming causes the polar bear more suffering. Cannibal polar animals are animals.
3. Tiger
The original tiger tropical regions in Southeast Asia and temperate regions such as the Russian Far East. Less than 6,000 tigers remain in the wild. The most urgent threats to tigers are poaching for body parts and bones used in traditional Asian medicines.
4. Beluga Sturgeon
Beluga sturgeon is an ancient fish that are still alive today and are found in the Caspian Sea. They appreciated all over the world by lovers for superior quality caviar. The hunt out of control due to excessive demand and high prices make this fish is reduced drastically.
5. Panda
Panda is an animal that originated from China. The longer this animal is on the wane. Panda used as a symbol for the WWF. Panda is a protected animal.
6. Alligator Snapping Turtle
These animals are hunted for consumption. This is a freshwater turtle in North America’s largest. Alligator turtle broken quickly become depleted due to increased shipments to many international markets including Asia.
7. Hawksbill Turtle
Hawksbill turtle is found mainly around tropical reefs. Three feet long hawksbill turtle species, named after the distinctive snout, become very vulnerable because of their slow reproductive rate and high volume of illegal trade for precious gems such as “tortoise shell.”
8. Java Rhino
Java Rhino is an endangered species residing on the island of Java. It is estimated that only 30 rhino tail. The government is trying to protect the rhino from poaching and threats that can cause extinction.
9. Green-cheeked Parrot
Green-cheeked Parrot is a bird that comes from Mexico. He has the ability to imitate human speech. Green-cheeked parrot has been significantly reduced in number due to huge demand for pet birds are beautiful, especially from the United States.
10. Mako Shark
Mako Shark hunted for their meat and fins, and most of the consumption in the Asian market for shark fins they have a greater value for medicinal purposes. Most simply take their fins and then thrown back into the depths, left to die. Mako shark is one animal that include in the list of endangered animal.
We Left The Panda Off Our Ten Most Endangered Animals List
We mentioned in another article that picking a Ten Most Endangered Animals list was a tough job. For every critically endangered creature you select, you must leave out hundreds of other animals that are in just as much jeopardy.
That’s why, despite the photo at the left, we chose not to include the giant panda on our roster of the world’s ten most endangered animals. The panda, as appealing and important as it is, has gotten plenty of attention from conservationists and the public alike. Time to make room for another critically endangered animal or two that hasn’t had as much time in the spotlight of looming extinction.
The western lowland gorilla
The western lowland gorilla is one of many new additions to the World Conservation Union (IUCN)'s 2007 Red List of Threatened Species, which was made public today.
Since 2006, the annual assessment of the planet's imperiled wildlife has grown by more than a thousand species and now totals 41,415.
Many great apes end up on the list, as their habitat is continually under threat from human activities. (Read about the charcoal trade and Congo's mountain gorillas.)
Western lowland gorilla populations in central Africa have collapsed due to the commercial bushmeat trade and the Ebola virus. And in Indonesia, orangutans are critically endangered because of forest logging and clearing land for palm oil plantations.
LEOPARD
Leopards are mainly found over nearly the whole of Africa, south of the Sahara, northeast and Asia. They are well known for their dark spots arranged in rosettes over much of their body without the central spot as found in jaguars. Besides being known for their spots, they are also known for running very fast with up to speeds of about one hundred kilometres per hour. They also have the agility to climb trees as well as swim.
Their diet consist of antelope, wild pigs, monkeys, porcupines, birds and domestic livestock. They favour dogs as a meal. If they are unable to lure a dog out of the village, leopards are known to go right into the village to get the dog they want. They frequently store the remains of their kill up on trees for protection among the branches while they eat or rest.
In the past, leopards were considered a nuisance to cattle and were frequently shot or hunted. But as man destroyed their habitat for cattle, farming and other human activities, the leopards had no where to survive and their prey decreased due to immigration and lack of food. Therefore leopards had no choice but to kill cattle and domestic livestock. As a result, man killed them to protect their livestock. This caused the leopards to decrease drastically.
Besides that, the leopards were poached illegally for their valuable skin and body parts. In the 1980s and 1990s, the demand for their skins increased sharply due the furs’ popularity in fashion.
Due the conservation efforts, these leopards are now a protected species in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and most parts of the world. Efforts also have been made to hand breed them and then be released in the wild or enclosures are being made.
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