Species Profiles

Amphibians – frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians – constitute an important link between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, perpetuating nutrient cycling in their environments.

While coral reefs support amazing diversity, around the world they are under intense threat from over-fishing, pollution, increased levels of carbon dioxide in the oceans and even irresponsible tourism.

Wanted more dead than alive – crocodiles' safety will remain precarious until laws to protect them are better enforced.

As elephants attempt to continue their usual patterns of eating and movement, they are coming into contact more and more often with human populations.

After years of conflict, the Eastern gorillas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda have become an example of how humans and wildlife can co-exist and benefit each other.

Amazingly, of the 17 families of primates in the world, five of those are endemic to Madagascar. Protecting lemurs is a conservation priority for we stand to lose almost one third of the diversity of our own order.

There are hundreds of species of primates in the world today – monkeys, lemurs, gorillas, orangutans and more in a vibrant range of shapes, sizes and colors and found in virtually every type of tropical forest.

Fragmented across Central Asia, China, and Tibet, Autonomous Region of China, snow leopards (Uncia uncia) roam through mountain corridors and montane habitats.

Pandas are perfectly adapted to do two things: eat bamboo and steal hearts. Sadly, wild pandas are as threatened as they are loveable.

Long a symbol of the effect of climate change on animals, few scientists are optimistic about the future of polar bears (Ursus maritimus).

3,500 black rhinoceroses exist in the wild, and the IUCN classifies this species as Critically Endangered.

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the world’s largest living cat and among the world's most highly threatened animals.

Turtles are threatened on both land and sea.

People are eating sharks far more than sharks are eating people. The demand for shark fin soup has driven 20 percent of all sharks and their closest relatives nearly to extinction.