Endangered Species
33 entries in the Living Planet compendium.
Endangered Species — Era Chart
VaquitaThe smallest porpoise on Earth, hiding in the shadows of extinction.Amur LeopardA ghost of the snows, one of the rarest big cats on Earth.Javan RhinoThe world's rarest rhino survives as a solitary sentinel in Indonesia's last wild sanctuarHawksbill Sea TurtleThe reef's sponge-eating guardian with a shell once coveted by humanity.KakapoThe world's heaviest parrot: a flightless night-walker clinging to survival on New ZealandSaolaA phantom of the Annamites, glimpsed only in shadow.Northern Right WhaleA prehistoric giant teetering on the edge of silence in the North Atlantic.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 square-lipped giant of the African grasslands, a social grazer facing an uncertain futTigerThe 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 northern ghost of the taiga, a survivor of ice ages and human expansion, clings to theLeatherback Sea TurtleThe ocean's ancient giant dives into the abyss to hunt jellyfish in the deep.Sunda PangolinThe only Hindu-majority province in Indonesia, where ancient irrigation systems and royal Kemp's Ridley Sea TurtleThe smallest sea turtle fights the hardest for survival in a changing ocean.Giant PandaA bear species endemic to China, mostly herbivorous with a diet consisting almost entirelyCross River GorillaThe rarest gorilla subspecies, clinging to a small range on the Cameroon-Nigeria border.Yangtze Finless PorpoiseA silent swimmer in a noisy river: China’s only freshwater porpoise fights to survive the 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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