Endangered species

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural

ResourcesIUCN

• Some people have made an environmental institution in 1948. Later joined 81 countries and 77 international organizations. Its most important project is Red List, which is a list of the protected animals and plants.

Converse endangered species

(Informations of Red List (2010))

• 2754 animals• 2464 plants

Some endangered species

• Galapagos tortoise• Chinese dolphin• Iberian lynx

• Sunda Rhinoceros

Galapagos tortoise

• The tortoise has given its name for its habitat, Galapagos islands. A lot of turtles live here, so this is attracts the tourists. Unfortunatelly they are few, so the carers worried about their.

Chinese dolphin

• They lived in Jangce and other rivers in China. Probable the dolphins died out, because the scientists haven’t seen them since 2004. The most dolphins died about water pollution or fishing nets.

Iberian lynx

• The lynxes live forests of Spain, where there are a lot of deforestation. So the people are destroying their habitat. The hunters shoot down them for their beautiful fur.

Sunda rhinoceros

• Unfortunatelly the Sunda rhinoceros died out. The hunters shot down them for their horns. The last rhino died in 2011 in Vietnam.

Some endangered plants

• Cranberry• Snowdrop• Stipa

Cranberry

• The doctors use this plant like medicine and there aren’t any many, so the cranberry is very protected plant.

Snowdrop

• The snowdrop is a beautiful flower and a lot of people often give it for a gift. Specie of them are a few, so they are protected plants.

Stipa

• Factory workers use it in paper factory, therefore the plants began died out. Stipa is protected plant about Red list.

• Unfortunatelly the most plants and animals in danger about the causes of people.For examples: hunting, water pollution, tourist, destroy habitats.

What do we do againts these problems?

- We buy such products, which aren’t made for endangered species, plants!

- We care for our forests!

- We love animals and plants and we don’t hurt them!

Thank you for your attention!