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by Ruggiero Richard

Cross river Gorilla

With an estimated 280 individuals left in the world, the Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla is Africa’s most threatened great ape. Living in the highlands of Cameroon on the border with Nigeria, they have been hunted for years by local residents, making them very wary of humans.

The Amur Leopard

Only 35 Amur Leopards are left in the wild to this date. Loss of their forest habitat, insufficient prey and retaliatory killings by farmers are the biggest threats facing Amur leopards. This makes the Amur leopard one of the world’s most endangered big cats and for this reason it is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, and CITES Appendix I for protection status.

Hawksbill Turtle

Despite their protection under CITES, as well as under many national laws, there is still a large amount of trade in hawksbills products, and this probably constitutes the major threat to the species.
Hawksbills declined globally by over 80% during the last century.

South China Tiger

The South China tiger population was estimated to number 4,000 individuals in the early 1950s. In the next few decades, thousands were killed as the subspecies was hunted as a pest. The Chinese government banned hunting in 1979. By 1996 the population was estimated to be just 30-80 individuals.

Today the South China tiger is considered by scientists to be “functionally extinct,” as it has not been sighted in the wild for more than 25 years.

	by Jo Oh
Javan Rhino Javan rhinos are the most threatened of the five rhino species, with as few as 35 individuals surviving in Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia.

	by Greg Hume
Sumatran Orangutan The Sumatran orangutan is almost exclusively arboreal, living among the trees...