The Mountain Gorilla

The Mountain Gorilla 

Have you ever heard of sasquatch? Well, this is your “sasquatch”. Not everyone knows that the mountain gorilla exists, so they think “sasquatch!”. Anyways let's discuss why the mountain gorilla is endangered.

If you’ve read any of my other articles, I’m sure you have a good idea of why. For these gorgeous animals, they’re population is damaged due to poaching. Unfortunately, there’s just over 1,000 left. Which is not a lot.

Mountain gorillas can grow to be 5 ½ feet tall when standing on two feet! That’s pretty big. These animals can survive in conditions that are close to death for a human. They thrive in elevations between 8,000-13,000 feet. 

I know that this isn’t a super long article, but it still gives the message. Please keep visiting and please share with your friends.

Remember that wildlife conservation is so important and keep supporting it! Keep visiting to learn more and check out youtube to learn more about animals. Also if you want to look at some endangered species yourself click here.

Works Cited:

“Species Directory” Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?sort=extinction_status&direction=desc. Accessed July 29.

“Facts” Mountain Gorilla Gorillas WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/mountain-gorilla. Accessed July 29. 

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 Hi guys! I know it's been quite a while since I've posted! But I've been very busy! although I'll be posting soon! So stay tuned.

Great White Shark

                      

The Great White Shark

Dun dun. Dun dun. Dun dun. Dun dun. No no just kidding. You would only understand that if you’ve seen the movie Jaws. Anyways, the great white shark. 300 teeth, 20 feet long, 7,000 pounds. The great white shark is a feared predator. Although, innocent. Sharks kill less than 15 people a year, people kill nearly 12,000 sharks an hour. These gorgeous misunderstood animals are being killed for soup. People catch them, cut off their fins, and throw them back into the ocean to die. 

Other reasons are one overfishing, and two nets to keep jellyfish, sharks and other predators out of populated beaches. The sharks get caught in the nets, can’t eat, suffer and die. Although, luckily some beaches have cameras or groups to check the nets to release the sharks. This tragedy also happens to lots of other marine animals. 

Great white sharks are listed as vulnerable. Right now that may not seem like a big deal, but by the number of sharks that are being killed per hour, great white sharks are headed to be endangered, and then critically endangered. We need all breeds of sharks in our world! If we don’t have sharks in the ocean, other species will start to over-populate. This will throw the food chain completely off. 

Help save these gorgeous creatures. The website that I’ve been gathering a lot of information from is World Wildlife. They are helping a lot with wildlife conservation. If you want you can actually make a symbolic adoption on their website. I’m about to leave for Hawaii, but when I get back I would love to adopt a great white shark. Check out this link where it tells you more information. 

Works Cited:

“Species Directory” Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?sort=extinction_status&direction=desc. Accessed May 16. 

“Facts” Great White Sharks Species WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/great-white-shark. Accessed May 16. 

“Threats” Great White Sharks Species WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/great-white-shark. Accessed May 16. 

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Red Panda

The Red Panda

The red panda is absolutely adorable. In my opinion, they look like a fox, racoon, and cat mixed. They’re so cute! These animals tend to spend most of their time in trees. Their long tail helps them with balance in tree limbs and they’re tail is very thick with fur and full which helps keep them warm in the winter. 

Red pandas mostly live in the Eastern Himalayas in forests. They grow 2 feet at the max and are herbivores. And sadly, these adorable little animals are endangered. There’s less than 10,000! Which in reality is a big number, however, for a living species that is so small! Red pandas are so cute! Do you really want them to disappear? 

The reason these adorable fuzzy little animals are losing population so fastly because they one, are accidentally caught in deer and pig traps. The other reason is they are being poached for their fur. Both of these problems are absolutely devastating. 

I encourage everyone to research more on endangered species themselves as well! Wildlife is so important in our world. Do you enjoy seeing animals on your road trips? The only way you can keep seeing these gorgeous creatures is by conserving them! Here’s a link to a list of endangered species so you can look at them yourself if you’d like. But if not, please keep coming back to my blog so you can still read about these unique gorgeous animals! 

Works Cited:

"Species Directory" Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status. Accessed May 15. 

“Facts” Red Panda Species WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/red-panda. Accessed May 15. 

“Threats” Red Panda Species WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/red-panda. Accessed May 15.

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Hector's Dolphin

 The Hector's Dolphin

The Hector's dolphin is an endangered species. I know that all of my other essays have been critically endangered animals. And that is definitely absolutely not all of the critically endangered animals. Back to the point, just because the Hector's dolphin isn’t critically endangered, doesn’t mean that it’s not important. The animals who aren't endangered still matter. All animals matter. Wildlife is what makes our world gorgeous. 

Currently the Hector’s dolphin only has a population of 7,000. Like I’ve said before, even though 7,000 is a big number, for a species, that is not a lot. Now the Hector’s dolphin actually has a sub-species called the Maui dolphin. And sadly, they are critically endangered. They only have a population of 55. These species are only found in the west of New Zealand’s North Island. 

I really recommend you guys searching the Hector’s dolphin! They are absolutely adorable! They’re like a mix of an orca and a dolphin. But really small. I hope that you guys enjoy my blog and are starting to see the importance of wildlife conservation.

I also want to say thank you to world wildlife, they have helped me learn about endangered species. 

Works Cited:

"Species Directory" Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status. Accessed May 8 2021.

“Facts” Hector’s Dolphin Species WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/hector-s-dolphin 

Accessed May 8 2021.

Bornean Orangutan

The Bornean Orangutan

The Bornean orangutan is adorable! Their faces make me think of plates. They have a kind of flat circular type of face. I really recommend searching images of them because they are so cute!

The Bornean orangutan is actually really interesting. Did you know that they have 97% of the same DNA as we do? It’s incredible! They are actually really intelligent and can do so many things us humans can do! 

However, these incredible animals populations are going down. In prehistoric times, these gorgeous animals lived all the way upto the forests in northern China! Amazing isn’t it?! Although now they have been pushed to the island Borneo, and their population is estimated to only be fifty-thousand to sixty-thousand! That’s so small for a species' (almost human) population. Per-usual, the reason for their small population is due to poaching, and their habitat being destroyed. So unfortunately they are now critically endangered.

I hope the few articles (more to come) have helped encourage you to support wildlife conservation! Like all my articles, here’s a link to a list of endangered animals. I encourage everyone to look at these endangered animals themselves as well. 

Works Cited: 

"Species Directory" Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status. Accessed May 8 2021.

"Bornean Orangutan" Bornean Orangutan Endangered Animals, https://animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/bornean-orangutan/ Accessed May 8 2021.

Amur Leopard

The Amur Leopard

The Amur Leopard! What a gorgeous animal. They are actually kind of small for a leopard. The average size is only about 3 feet. They are so cute! 

Like my other reports we're coming to the population. The Amur Leopard is critically endangered. The population is estimated to be about 60. That’s it, 60. This may seem like a big number, but for a population, it is extremely small. 

There’s two reasons the Amur Leopard population is decreasing one. Poaching of their prey. Because their prey is decreasing, they have no food! Second, the leopards themselves are being poached! According to the website “animalplanet.com” their fur then turned into pelts can be sold for $1,000! 

If you want to help fix this problem, find an organization to donate to to support wildlife conservation. You can’t donate here, due to me not exactly knowing how to set that up, but there are plenty of other places to donate to. 

Per usual, here’s a link to a list of endangered animals. I encourage you to research endangered animals yourself as well. We need wildlife on our planet. Help save it. 

I want to say thank you to worldwildlife.org for helping me find out about these endangered animals. 

Works Cited:

"Species Directory" Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status. Accessed May 8 2021.

"Amur Leopard" Amur Leopard Endangered Species Animal Planet, http://www.animalplanet.com/wild-animals/endangered-species/amur-leopard/ Accessed May 8 2021.

Vaquita

The Vaquita

The Vauita is the cutest little animal! It’s just like a tiny dolphin! They only grow to be about 5 feet long at the maximum! Imagine how cute! The vaquita actually aren’t a very known or common animal for people to hear about. At least in my opinion. However, they are critically endangered. And when I say critically endangered, I mean there’s only 10 left on the entire Earth. 

This is an extremely small population. Like I’ve said before in last reports, imagine the world population being ten. Nobody wants that. 

I would really recommend searching vaquita and look at images. They are absolutely gorgeous. The reason the Vaquitas are so endangered is due to fishing nets. Like many other marine creatures, these animals get caught in the nets, struggle, and die. It’s not good. We need to stop this craziness. 

Like usual, here’s a link to a list of endangered animals. You can also find information yourself to help support wildlife conservation! If you have any recommended animals for me to write about please please please let me know in the comments. 

Works Cited:

"Species Directory" Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status. Accessed May 8 2021.

"Saving The Vaquita" Vaquita, https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/vaquita/ Accessed May 8 2021.

Saola

The Saola

The saola is not a common or heard of animal. To be honest, I haven’t known about them very long myself. But the population is low. The Saola has actually only been known to scientists since 1992. The population according to inverse.com is only 750. Scientists have only known about this species for 29 years, and in this short period of time, we have a population smaller than 1,000! It’s crazy! The Saola is obviously critically endangered.

The saola is actually quite a gorgeous animal. I recommend you to search it, it’s adorable! 

I’m sure you’re wondering what is causing this extreme downsize, well it’s simple. Snare traps. The Saola is only located in the Annamite Mountains of Laos and Vietnam. 

The world needs wildlife and we need to conserve it. Do you like to go on road trips and see bison, elk, koalas, snakes? And so many more? Then conserve wildlife! Myself and so many others are trying to get the message out to conserve wildlife! 

Here’s a link to a list of endangered animals. I encourage all of my readers and others to find more information themselves as well. I also encourage telling your friends so we can get the message out there!

Works Cited:

"Species Directory" Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status. Accessed May 8 2021.

"Saving Saola through the One Plan approach" Saola Working Group - Save the Saola, https://www.savethesaola.org. Accessed May 8 2021.

Sumatran Rhino

The Sumatran Rhino

The Sumatran rhino is critically endangered. Today the Sumatran rhino is mostly found in Sumatra. However, they were originally found in Assam, Burma, Thailand, Indochina, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. The fact that they are pretty much only found in Sumatra now, is devastating. This means that the population is rapidly dropping. 

The Sumatran rhino lives in forests, bamboo forests, the bush, and marshy areas. 

Ever since the 1930’s, the Sumatran rhino has lost 80 PERCENT of its population. That is such a high drop. In 2008 a population survey was taken, and the population was 220-275 adult Sumatran rhino adults. IUCN expects that we’re seeing this traumatic drop due to poaching. Now, the population is estimated to be less than 100 left in the wild. 

There has been attempted breeding for Sumatran rhinos, but sadly has not been very successful. Also here is a link to a list of endangered animals! I encourage you guys to learn about endangered animals yourself to see the population drops and find more information. I also recommend photos of the Sumatran rhino! They are actually the smallest breed of rhinos! 

Works Cited:

Dinerstein, Eric. "Sumatran rhinoceros". Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 May. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/animal/Sumatran-rhinoceros. Accessed 8 May 2021.

"Species Directory". Species List Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Animals WWF, https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory. Accessed 8 May 2021.