World's Most Endangered Animals In 2024
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies nearly 4,000 species as being critically endangered, meaning they face such severe threats that they could very soon become extinct in the wild. These threats include habitat loss, poaching and wildlife trafficking, all directly attributable to human activity and human population growth.
The following list includes 19 of the planet’s most endangered animals, from birds, fish, and reptiles to marine and land mammals.
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- Black rhino
- Javan rhino
- Northern white rhino
- Sumatran rhino
- Amur leopard
- Orangutan
- Gorilla
- African forest elephant
- Saolas
- Kākāpōs
- Brown spider monkey
- North Atlantic right whale
- Vaquitas
- Pangolin
- Hammerhead shark
- Box turtle
- Lemur
- Red-fronted macaw
- Pygmy three-toed sloth
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) works around the world to help protect endangered and vulnerable animals like these from threats including habitat loss, poaching, wildlife trafficking, and natural disasters. Learn more about how you can get involved.
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We have tech billionaires spending fortunes on developing space travel so that we can escape to another planet when earth finally collapses, when that money could be spent on saving what we have. Madness!
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It would be impossible to escape to another planet anyhow, there are far too many of us and we’d only destroy the one we moved to.
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This is so terribly sad and so preventable. Such beautiful animals deserve our protection and it’s their world as much as it is ours.
Some of these species are actually down to single figures. Horrible!
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Humans should be genuinely ashamed. Still more intent on firing missiles at each other than trying to save what is left of the planet. Disgraceful.
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