10 Animals in Crisis

If you check out the sites at National Geographic, the Guardian, BBC News, and Science Daily, you will find that there are many more species that face crisis.

From ocean, to land, to mountain there are some types of animals that need our attention.

World’s Primates are at Risk of Extinction

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated about half of all primate species are facing extinction. The evaluation was base on the work of hundreds of scientists, and included comprehensive studies for more than a decade.

The two biggest threats for primates are the destruction of logging, hunting for bushmeat, and illegal wildlife trading.

Eleven of thirteen kinds of red colobus monkey in Africa have been listed as critically endangered. The Bouvier’s red colobus and Miss Waldron’s red colobus may be extinct already.

Primates Face Extinction Crisis

This unique grey-shanked douc langur is critically endangered, and conservationists described the situation as “depressing” when a global review said that 48% of primate species face extinction!

Here is IUCN Red List:

• Cambodia-90%
• Vietnam-86%
• Indonesia-84%
• Laos-83%
• China-79%

Sun Bear is on the Red List

The sun bear is the smallest of eight species of bear: the Asiatic black bear, the sloth bear, the Andean bear, the polar bear, the brown bear, the American black bear, the giant panda bear, and the sun bear.

Joining the giant panda bear in the endangered species is the sun bear. This little bear lives in Southeast Asia, Sumatra, and Borneo, and is on the Red List since there was a decreased of at least 30% in the last 30 years.

Penguin Chicks Frozen by Global Warming

Explorer Jon Bowermaster said: “many, many, many of them-thousands of them-were dying” when witnessed the baby chicks frozen by the impact of global climate change.
About two third of all penguin species are endangered by human activities such as oil spills, run over by tourists, climate change, current change, and shortage of fish.