Endangered speciesMade by-

Vishakha Srivastava

WHY ARE BEAUTIFUL SPECIES BECOMING

ENDANGERED ?

Beautiful and wonderful species are getting

endangered just because of humans cruelty and

greediness. All of us need leather so we kill hippos, we need tiger’s skin so we kill tigers and so on . Let’s see

some of the endangered animals.

Tigers are endangered mainly from poachers.

Poachers are people who hunt illegally. There used to be 100,000 tigers in

Asia alone and now there are only 4,000 tigers left around the whole world. Poachers even hunt in

parks where some tigers live. Some people will pay 65,000 dollars for 1 tiger skin. So that is basically

why tigers are endangered, and maybe if

we try hard enough we can get them back.

WHY ARE TIGERS GETTING ENDANGERED?

This threatened reptile lives in the

Mediterranean Sea, as well as the Black

Sea and Atlantic Loggerhead turtle

Ocean. The turtle was once intensively

hunted for their meat and eggs, but its fat was also used in the cosmetic industry.

Many of these animals die annually caught in the fishing nets of crabfishers .

In Turkey, hotels have been built right on its

breeding sites.

LOGGERHEAD TURTLE 

 WHITE TAILED FISH EAGLE

Before man experimented with the use of pheromones, this spectacular bird of prey was much more numerous than it is today. They have also been hunted by shepherds and gamekeepers that considered them a threat to their sheep or birds. With intense conservation actions, the populations in eastern Europe recovered, recovery plans are aimed at colonizing some traditional breeding areas in Europe.

 This bird can be seen in Britain, but its native

home is across eastern Asia, in Russia, China,

Korea and Japan. Worldwide population status is unknown, the

current Asian population being somewhere under

20,000. Extinction of these beautiful birds is due to mainly loggers, hunters and poachers.

Known predators include mink, raccoon dog, otters, polecats, eagle owls and grass

snakes.

 MANDARIN DUCK 

 There are fourteen species of bat in Britain

and all of them are endangered. horseshoe

bat. The greater horseshoe bat is one of

the rarest. There are currently 35 recognized maternity and all-year

roosts and 369 hibernation sites.

Current estimates range between 4,000 and 6,600

individuals. They have also suff ered from the

use of insecticides (poisonous chemicals sprayed on to crops to kill harmful insects)

which have deprived the bats of their insect food.

 GREATER HORSESHOE BAT

These animals l ive in several areas in Karnataka,

Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Many of India’s Lion-tailed macaque tropical forests,

the monkey ’s natural habitat, have been cleared and replaced with tea and coff ee plantations. As with

so many mammals, currently the main threat in the wild is destruction of their habitat. Poachers have also captured baby macaques, often kil l ing

their parents in the process, for i l legal export

to collectors. They are considered to be the most endangered monkey, with

only 400 individuals left in the wild. They are hunted

for their fl esh and fur.

LION-TAILED MACAQUE

 They inhabit woodlands in Western Australia, this is

the only state in which they are found in the

wild. .The Numbat is now extinct throughout much of its range. It survives in the wild only in a small area in

the southwest corner of Australia. When man introduced predatory

animals such as cats, dogs and foxes, these animals

ate many Numbats . Their numbers are sti l l declining

since many of the areas that constituted their

habitats are being cleared for farming and mining.

NUMBAT

This is one of the most endangered mammals in

North America, an animal on the edge of Black Footer

Ferret ext inct ion in the wi ld. Loss of habitat is the pr imary

reason black- footed ferrets remain near the br ink of

ext inct ion. The remaining prair ie dog colonies are smal l and fragmented, separated by

great expanses of cropland and human development. By

the year 2010, biologists hope to have 1500 ferrets

establ ished in the wi ld, with no fewer than 30 breeding adults in each populat ion.

BLACK FOOTED FERRET

 Once the most common sea-bird in in South Africa, the jackass penguin is the only

penguin to be Jackass penguin found in Africa. Because they live so far

north, and in a relatively accessible region,

African penguins have been particularly

vulnerable to human depredation.

Considering the decline in food supplies, seals

now prey on the penguins instead. Oil

pollution also threatens them, as does the taking

of their eggs for food.

 JACKASS PENGUIN