Pudu
The Pudu is considered to be the world's smallest deer and is found in Argentina and Chile in South America.
Due to overhunting and habitat loss to agriculture and livestock, the Southern Pudu has been classified as endangered.
Amur Leopard
With less than 40 individuals left in the wild, Amur leopards are now critically endangered. Poaching for their skins continues to be a threat as well as diminished food supply due to unregulated hunting.
Orangutan
Habitat destruction due to commercial logging and forest clearance for agriculture is the greatest threat to the orangutan. This great ape is also threatened by hunting from farmers in retaliation for crop destruction.
The greatest threat to the orangutan is the disappearance of their lowland forest habitats due to logging and forest clearance for agriculture.
Tiger
Habitat loss and fragmentation due to forest clear-cutting combined with poaching for skins and body parts have greatly reduced tiger populations in the wild. The tiger is one of the most threatened species on Earth. It is estimated that as few as 5,000 – 7,000 tigers remain in the wild.
Snow Leopard
Due to a dramatic decline over the last decade, snow leopard populations are now almost as diminished as those of the tiger.
Diminished food supply due to unregulated hunting, the illegal trade of coveted snow leopard pelts and human encroachment into their habitat are all factors leading to their decline.
Sea Turtle
About 250,000 loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are accidentally caught and killed each year in fishing gear.
Bycatch is an ongoing, worldwide issue; hundreds of thousands of marine turtles are caught annually in shrimp trawls, on long-line hooks and in illegal fishing nets. The illegal trade in turtle meat, shells and eggs is an ongoing threat to the survival of sea turtles.
Panda Bear
Giant pandas are one of the world’s most threatened species – as few as 1,600 remain in the wild and face continual threats to their survival.
Habitat loss and fragmentation due to clear-cutting of forests for agriculture, timber and fuel wood have destroyed over 50% of the bamboo forests that make up the giant panda's home.
Orca Whale
Despite a global freeze on commercial whaling since 1986, seven of the world’s 13 great whales, as well as orcas, remain endangered today.
Asian Elephant
Fewer than 33,000 Asian elephants still roam wild, and these populations are living in mostly small and isolated, fragmented landscapes.
Fragmented and diminished habitat due to logging and the conversion of forest to farmland for growing crops has isolated Asian elephant populations. The poaching of Asian elephants for their hides, meat and tusks remains a serious problem in many countries.
Arctic Fox
Melting sea ice, due to climate change, means Arctic foxes have a shorter hunting season and limited access to their food supply, leading to malnutrition and starvation.
Polar Bear
Fewer than 25,000 polar bears remain in the wild and some populations, such as Canada's western Hudson Bay polar bears, are facing extinction in this century.
Unfortunately today, polar bears are threatened by climate change, melting sea ice, starvation and toxic pollution.