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? 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 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 suffered 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 live 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 coffee 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 killing their parents in the process, for illegal 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 flesh 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 still 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 extinction in the wild. Loss of habitat is the primary reason black-footed ferrets remain near the brink of extinction. The remaining prairie dog colonies are small and fragmented, separated by great expanses of cropland and human development. By the year 2010, biologists hope to have 1500 ferrets established in the wild, with no fewer than 30 breeding adults in each population. 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