Specialists of the famous World Wildlife Fund say that over the last quarter century the biological diversity of our planet has been reduced by about a third. Dozens of species of plants and animals fall into the lists for ever lost.
The current Top-10 includes the rarest animals on Earth .They are few, but still these species can still be saved if you make maximum efforts.
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10. Bison
This is the largest and heaviest of European mammals. Zubr is the last representative of European wild bulls. Today their number does not exceed 3000 individuals, and about a hundred live in captivity. Earlier, the bison inhabited the zone of broad-leaved and mixed forests of the Caucasus, Northern Iran, Central, Western and South-Eastern Europe.
9. Shredded Cassowary
This large flightless bird has a very expressive appearance. Individual individuals weigh about 80 kg and reach 1.5 meters in length. Basically, cassowaries live in the northeast of Australia and in the tropical forests of New Guinea. Currently, the population of helmet-bearing cassowaries is 1500 individuals.
8. Gavial
One of the slowest animals of bizarre and rare crocodiles in the world by 1970 was almost completely disappeared. However, thanks to the program for artificial breeding of crocodiles developed in India, the population of ghwals was increased to 1500 individuals. In spite of this, today reptiles die, entangled in fishing nets, their eggs are in demand on the black market, and males are exterminated because of growths on their noses, considering them aphrodisiacs.
7. Big Panda
The Simpag, pictured on the emblem of the World Wildlife Fund, is known all over the world. However, this does not help her avoid a slow disappearance. Once the panda inhabited all of South Asia, today it can only be found on the outskirts of the Tibetan plateau. The total number of the species is about 1200 individuals.
6. Snow leopard
This rare predator once lived in the mountains of Central Asia. Outwardly it resembles a white leopard, but smaller and has a long fluffy tail. Snow leopard is quite difficult to meet in the wild. Currently, the species does not exceed 2000 individuals and continues to decline.
5. Przewalski's horses
They were the last wild horses that lived in the plains of Asia. The reason for the extinction of these animals were the Mongolian tribes who hunted them because of delicious meat. Today there are no more than 1000 individuals in the world that are held captive. People have not managed to tame Przhevalsky's horse, becauseshe by nature does not give in to training.
4. Mountain gorillas
Large primates live in the dense forests of the Republic of Congo, in the south-west of Uganda and in Rwanda. Despite its considerable size and formidable appearance, it is a very peaceful and sociable animal. However, natural disasters, predatory destruction by poachers, diseases transmitted from a person and the destruction of the natural habitat led to a reduction in the number of these monkeys to 720 individuals.
3. The Amur tiger
One of the rarest representatives of the world's fauna is listed in the Red Book due to the fact that it is threatened with complete extinction. The northernmost species of the tiger dwells in the southeast of Russia. The intensive extermination of these predators and the reduction of habitats due to human activity led to the fact that by the end of the 1930s there were only 50 of them. Today, the number of Amur tigers varies within 4 hundred individuals.
2. The Yavan rhinoceros
Yavansky is the most mysterious of all rhinoceroses. Previously, this one-legged animal could be found in Southeast Asia, and also on the Great Sunda Islands. Today, the Javanese rhino lives only in Indonesia and on the island of Java. There is no such animal in any zoo in the world, and no more than 25-30 rhinos live in the wild today.
1. Chinese riverine dolphin
This aquatic mammal was distributed in the eastern part of China. River dolphins have no natural enemies, but human activities, pollution of the Yangtze River, construction of dams and drainage of land have resulted in the number of animals being reduced to 30 individuals. Alas, representatives of this rare species practically do not survive in captivity.
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