Prepared by: Alvita Matuleviit

There are now 41,415 species on the

IUCN Red Listand 16,306 of them are endangered species threatened with extinction. This is up from 16,118 last year. This includes both endangered animals and endangered plants.

Endangered species
The species endangered include one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70% of the worlds assessed plants on the 2007 IUCN Red List are in jeopardy of extinction. The total number of extinct species has reached 785 and a further 65 are only found in captivity or in cultivation. In the last 500 years, human activity has forced over 800 species into extinction.

The list of Endangered Species

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
A North American bird so endangered it may actually be extinct.

Amur Leopard
The worlds rarest cat: Only 40 left in Russias Far East.

Javan Rhinoceros
No more than 60 of these swampdwelling Asian rhinos exist.

Northern Sportive Lemur Heres the

scarcest of Madagascars fast-dwindling lemur species.

Northern Right Whale

Hunted to near extinction, 350 right whales still swim the Atlantic.

Western Lowland Gorilla

Disease and illegal hunting are taking an alarming toll on this gentle giant of a primate

Thank you for your attention!