Most Endangered Animal

Endangered Species

In a survey of biologists conducted by New York's American Museum of Natural History, 70% of the biologists surveyed believe that 20% of all living animal populations could become extinct by 2028. Science has only identified about 2 million species, but it is estimated that this is only a small fraction of the number that have yet to be discovered, or that have already gone extinct. Over the past 400 years, 89 mammalian species have gone extinct, and another 169 are threatened with extinction. Here the world's most endangered species - there are many more species that are endangered or threatened with becoming endangered, but most of these are considered to be at extreme risk of extinction...

The Siberian Tiger

• Scientific name: Panthera tigris altaica
• Location: Russian Far East, possibly small border areas of China and North Korea.
• Population: 450

Tigers once ranged all over Asia, but today their numbers are dangerously low, and more tigers exist in American zoos than in the wild in Asia. The Siberian, or amul, tiger is the sub-species closest to extinction in the wild. These are the largest sub-species of tiger in size, as well as the largest of the world's big cats.The major threats facing these big cats are poaching and loss of habitat due to human encroachment. Much of the poaching is done to supply tiger parts for traditional Chinese medicine, even though equivalent modern alternatives are available and have been proven to be more effective.