Endangered Species

A Concerted Effort

Our animals below are classified as Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered or Extinct in the Wild by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Near Threatened

African straw-coloured fruit bat
Burchell’s zebra
Jaguar
Plains zebra
Southern three-banded armadillo
Chilean flamingo
Cinereous vulture
Gentoo penguin
Golden-breasted starling
Greater rhea
Inca tern

Luzon bleeding-heart dove
Nicobar pigeon
Rhinoceros hornbill
Victoria crowned pigeon
Eastern hellbender
Gila monster
Ornate box turtle
Prehensile-tailed skink
Cichlid (altolamprologus calvus)

Vulnerable

African elephant
African lion
Cheetah
Giraffe
Goeldi’s monkey
Hippopotamus
Lion
Reindeer
Snow leopard
Congo peacock
Crested wood partridge
Humboldt penguin
Marbled teal

Southern ground hornbill
Southern rockhopper penguin
West African black-crowned crane
Fly River turtle
King cobra
California sheephead wrasse
Cichlid (Chindongo flavus)
Cichlid (Chindongo saulosi)
Lake Victoria cichlid

Endangered

Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata)
Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii)
Grand Cayman iguana (Cyclura lewisi)
Northern helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi pauxi)
Madagascar teal (Anas bernieri)
East African grey crowned-crane (Balearica regulorum gibbericeps)
Whooping crane (Grus americana)
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)
Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
Bonobo (Pan paniscus)
Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
Red panda (Ailurus fulgens refulgens)
Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata)

Critically Endangered

Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis)
Waldrapp ibis (Geronticus eremita)
Bali mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi)
Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra)

Cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus)
Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Eastern bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci)

Extinct in the Wild

Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus)