Monday, June 4, 2012

endangered animals

How many endangered animals do you know?one,two,five.Well, there are way more!Here are 12 of them.
here is a panda with its cub, it is estimated that as few as 1,600 pandas remain in the wild today.

here are three polar bears they depend on arctic ice to hunt and raise their cubs.But the ice is shrinking so they are losing their habit.e

here are two orangutans their numbers have fallen by 30%and 50% over the last decade due to loss of their forest habit.

here we have a bottle-nose dolphin and calf every year thousands of dolphins get caught in fishing nets and drown.
  
here is a Bengal tiger the tiger's numbers have plummeted by 95% to as little as 3,200.

here are some Asian elephants they are threatened to extinction.As our population grows there habit shrinks.

here is a black rhinoceros they are hunted for their horns and their habit is being destroyed.

here is an Amur leopard the most endangered species fewer than 35 remain in the wild today.

here is a Hawksbill turtle every year 250,000 get caught in fishing lines and nets and choke to death from them.
 
here is an Adiele penguin they depend on ice for their food but the oceans are warming up rapidly affecting this.

here is a jaguar the rainforest is being destroyed and now they are seriously under threat.

lastly we have a snow leopard and cub they are vulnerable to poaching,loss of prey and conflict with people.

if you want adopt one of the above visit www.wwf.org.uk for details or just click my link on the side of the page