Endangered Animals
Baiji, or Chinese river dolphin— deemed unctionally extinc by a team of scientists in downgraded from "endangered" to "critically endangered. Populations of the light blue-gray animal, which lives in China's polluted Yangtze River, have plummeted over the last 30 years.
Baiji, or Chinese river dolphin— deemed unctionally extinc by a team of scientists in downgraded from "endangered" to "critically endangered. Populations of the light blue-gray animal, which lives in China's polluted Yangtze River, have plummeted over the last 30 years.Freshwater dolphins are very vulnerable, because rivers tend to be heavily used by humans and there is nowhere else for the dolphins to go, Caroline Pollock, a Red Listprogram officer, told National Geographic News.
The western lowland gorilla is one of many new additions to the World Conservation Union Red List of Threatened Species, which was made public today.Many great apes end up on the list, as their habitat is continually under threat from human activities. Western lowland gorilla populations in central Africa have collapsed due to the commercial bushmeat trade and the Ebola virus. And in Indonesia, orangutans are critically endangered because of forest logging and clearing land for palm oil plantations.
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