A powerful look at Earth's biodiversity loss, focusing on animals from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Discover some of the rarest and most threatened creatures on Earth. Find out where they are found, what they eat, their life cycle and the reasons their survival is at risk. Most importantly, learn how conservation efforts are aiming to prevent their extinction.
Earth's rich biodiversity is at risk everywhere, due to devastating habitat loss, pollution, poaching and disease. Endangered Wildlife examines some of the world's most threatened species and explores what is being done to bring them back from the brink.
Aimed at readers aged 8 and up. This bumper book is your one-stop shop and includes a look at the following areas:
Birds
Mammals
Amphibians
Reptiles
Insects and invertebrates
Ocean life
- 1: Wildlife in Danger
- 2: Mammals
- 1: Mammals in danger
- 2: Tiger
- 3: Giant panda
- 4: Wild Bactrian camel
- 5: Black rhinoceros
- 6: Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- 7: Aye-aye
- 8: Orang-utan
- 9: Polar bear
- 10: Iberian lynx
- 11: Amur leopard
- 12: Western lowland gorilla
- 13: Baird's tapir
- 3: Amphibians
- 1: Amphibians in danger
- 2: Chinese giant salamander
- 3: Mountain chicken
- 4: Mexican axolotl
- 5: Mallorcan midwife toad
- 6: Montseny brook newt
- 7: Southern Corroboree frog
- 8: Western leopard toad
- 9: Lemur leaf frog
- 10: Sagalla caecilian
- 11: Malagasy rainbow frog
- 12: Kihansi spray toad
- 13: Quito rocket frog
- 4: Birds
- 1: Birds in danger
- 2: Giant ibis
- 3: California condor
- 4: Kakapo
- 5: Hyacinth macaw
- 6: Philippine eagle
- 7: Siberian crane
- 8: Waved albatross
- 9: Christmas Island frigatebird
- 10: Shoebill
- 11: Kagu
- 12: Yellow-breasted bunting
- 13: Forest owlet
- 5: Insects and invertebrates
- 1: Insects and invertebrates in danger
- 2: Lord Howe Island stick insect
- 3: Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly
- 4: Ladybird spider
- 5: Dracula ant
- 6: Seychelles giant millipede
- 7: Franklin's bumblebee
- 8: Basking malachite
- 9: Peacock tarantula
- 10: Epirus dancing grasshopper
- 11: Cederberg cave katydid
- 12: Sinai baton blue
- 13: American burying beetle
- 6: Ocean life
- 1: Ocean life in danger
- 2: Vaquita
- 3: Commercial top shell
- 4: Blue whale
- 5: Leatherback turtle
- 6: Southern bluefin tuna
- 7: Great hammerhead shark
- 8: Mediterranean monk seal
- 9: Knysna seahorse
- 10: Largetooth sawfish
- 11: Sea otter
- 12: European eel
- 13: West Indian manatee
- 7: Reptiles
- 1: Reptiles in danger
- 2: Green turtle
- 3: Saint Lucia racer
- 4: Gharial
- 5: Round Island keel-scaled boa
- 6: Galápagos giant tortoise
- 7: Fiji crested iguana
- 8: Komodo dragon
- 9: Orinoco crocodile
- 10: Minute leaf chameleon
- 11: Sand lizard
- 12: Painted terrapin
- 13: Galápagos pink land iguana
- 8: Glossary
- 9: Index