Top 10 animals in danger of extinction
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Top 10 animals in danger of extinction
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For some species, time on planet Earth is running out. Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species with poaching, habitat destruction and the effects of climate change causing a lot of the problems.learn about some of the beautiful creatures most in need of our help, protection and conservation.
Northern Spotted
As logging destroyed and fragmented the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, spotted owls declined. While national forests are now spared, logging on private lands continues to eat into spotted owl habitat, and the barred owl is outcompeting the spotted owl for prey and nesting space. There are an estimated 2,800 nesting pairs in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
Okapi
The okapi, a horse-size relative of the giraffe, has been a protected species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1933. But logging of its equatorial rainforest habitat, poaching, and mining have cut okapi numbers more than 50 percent in the past two decades. Breeding programs at dozens of zoos are helping to conserve the species. The rainforest of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Congo is also home to a number of species at risk of extinction.
Jaguar
Jaguars are the biggest of the big cats in the Americas: Fully grown males weigh in at 250 pounds. They were once found from the tip of South America to the southern United States, but loss of woodland habitat has reduced their range to central and northern South America, and deforestation remains the biggest risk to the animals’ survival. There are an estimated 15,000 jaguars in the wild today.
Red-Cheeked Gibbon
As tropical evergreen forests in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia have fallen to road building, plantations, and other development, this gibbon’s numbers have declined. The Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area in eastern Cambodia and surrounding forests are home to what may be the single largest remaining population between 2,600 and 3,400 groups of three to five gibbons each.
Asian Crested Ibis
This beautiful bird was once abundant across eastern Eurasia and Asia, but loss of its woodland and wetland habitats, along with overhunting, drove the species to the brink of extinction. By 1981, the remaining wild population was down to just seven birds in one forested area of Shaanxi province in central China. Current estimates put the population at around 500 in China.
Milne Edwards
The population of this lemur, which is native to the deciduous forests of western Madagascar, has dropped by about 50 percent. The cause is habitat loss: the burning of forest to clear land for live stock grazing.
Maned Sloth
Maned sloths spend their lives in the trees, munching twigs, leaves, and buds. It’s no myth that sloths are slow movers: The average sloth covers about 40 yards a day and is awake for only four to nine hours. Sloths are native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil, which has nearly vanished to make room for grazing, coal mines, and other development. Only 7 percent of the Atlantic Forest remains in Central and South America.
Golden Lion Tamarin
Native to lowland rainforests of southeastern Brazil, these long-furred primates are at risk of extinction owing to loss of their forest habitat and severe fragmentation of what remains. There are around 1,500 in the wild, some of them descendants of tamarins bred in captivity and reintroduced to help the species recover.
Boreal Caribou
Around 32,000 caribou inhabit about 1.5 million square miles of Canada’s boreal forest. That’s a lot of room to run, but it’s less than half the area they roamed in the 19th century, when boreal caribou numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Their population continues to decline with the destruction of the forest for mining, oil and gas development, and logging.
Cross River Gorilla
Native to the rainforests and lowland montane forests of Nigeria and Cameroon, this gorilla is losing its habitat to logging and forest clearing for livestock pastures and agriculture. Only 100 to 200 remain over about 3,000 square miles of territory. Roads built to facilitate development have also given poachers easier access to the gorillas.
https://art.tn/view/1340/en/top_10_animals_in_danger_of_extinction/
For some species, time on planet Earth is running out. Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species with poaching, habitat destruction and the effects of climate change causing a lot of the problems.learn about some of the beautiful creatures most in need of our help, protection and conservation.
Northern Spotted
As logging destroyed and fragmented the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, spotted owls declined. While national forests are now spared, logging on private lands continues to eat into spotted owl habitat, and the barred owl is outcompeting the spotted owl for prey and nesting space. There are an estimated 2,800 nesting pairs in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
Okapi
The okapi, a horse-size relative of the giraffe, has been a protected species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1933. But logging of its equatorial rainforest habitat, poaching, and mining have cut okapi numbers more than 50 percent in the past two decades. Breeding programs at dozens of zoos are helping to conserve the species. The rainforest of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Congo is also home to a number of species at risk of extinction.
Jaguar
Jaguars are the biggest of the big cats in the Americas: Fully grown males weigh in at 250 pounds. They were once found from the tip of South America to the southern United States, but loss of woodland habitat has reduced their range to central and northern South America, and deforestation remains the biggest risk to the animals’ survival. There are an estimated 15,000 jaguars in the wild today.
Red-Cheeked Gibbon
As tropical evergreen forests in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia have fallen to road building, plantations, and other development, this gibbon’s numbers have declined. The Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area in eastern Cambodia and surrounding forests are home to what may be the single largest remaining population between 2,600 and 3,400 groups of three to five gibbons each.
Asian Crested Ibis
This beautiful bird was once abundant across eastern Eurasia and Asia, but loss of its woodland and wetland habitats, along with overhunting, drove the species to the brink of extinction. By 1981, the remaining wild population was down to just seven birds in one forested area of Shaanxi province in central China. Current estimates put the population at around 500 in China.
Milne Edwards
The population of this lemur, which is native to the deciduous forests of western Madagascar, has dropped by about 50 percent. The cause is habitat loss: the burning of forest to clear land for live stock grazing.
Maned Sloth
Maned sloths spend their lives in the trees, munching twigs, leaves, and buds. It’s no myth that sloths are slow movers: The average sloth covers about 40 yards a day and is awake for only four to nine hours. Sloths are native to the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil, which has nearly vanished to make room for grazing, coal mines, and other development. Only 7 percent of the Atlantic Forest remains in Central and South America.
Golden Lion Tamarin
Native to lowland rainforests of southeastern Brazil, these long-furred primates are at risk of extinction owing to loss of their forest habitat and severe fragmentation of what remains. There are around 1,500 in the wild, some of them descendants of tamarins bred in captivity and reintroduced to help the species recover.
Boreal Caribou
Around 32,000 caribou inhabit about 1.5 million square miles of Canada’s boreal forest. That’s a lot of room to run, but it’s less than half the area they roamed in the 19th century, when boreal caribou numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Their population continues to decline with the destruction of the forest for mining, oil and gas development, and logging.
Cross River Gorilla
Native to the rainforests and lowland montane forests of Nigeria and Cameroon, this gorilla is losing its habitat to logging and forest clearing for livestock pastures and agriculture. Only 100 to 200 remain over about 3,000 square miles of territory. Roads built to facilitate development have also given poachers easier access to the gorillas.