The Suleiman Markhor

The markhor is a species of wild goat that lives in extremely rugged terrain with precipitous cliffs, rocky caves, and bare rock surfaces interspersed with patches of arid, steppe vegetation. Historically, the straight-horned (or Suleiman) markhor inhabited the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just inside the Afghanistan border. Today, the markhor is only found in the mountains of Balochistan Province, Pakistan. Here, locals have implemented a wildlife management plan called the Torghar Conservation Project, an innovative, community-based conservation program that allows for limited trophy hunting to conserve local populations of markhor, improve habitat for both markhor and domestic livestock, and improve the economic conditions for local tribes in Torghar.

                             

ENDANGERED ANIMALS: The African leopard

  The African leopard is one of 30 subspecies of leopard. It can be found in all of sub-Saharan Africa and west of the Kalahari Desert, and it is also found in the Middle East.

  The adult body length ranges from 3.4 feet to 6.6 feet and its body weight ranges from 65 to 155. Females are generally smaller than males. Leopard coat colors also very according to subspecies from light brown to a deep rusty yellow.

  There are many reasons for its danger, leopard hunting for its fur was once very popular, today threats to the species include trapping and poisoning by farmers who consider the leopard a nuisance to their livestock, habitat loss, commercial hunting, and decline in prey populations.

Look how cute they are¡

Endangered Animals: Asian elephant

Asian elephants live in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east.

They are extremely sociable, forming groups of six to seven females that are led by the oldest female, the matriarch.

More than two thirds of an elephant’s day may be spent feeding on grasses, but large amounts of tree bark, roots, leaves and small stems are also eaten. Cultivated crops such as bananas, rice and sugarcane are favorite foods.

They are in danger because of the illegal hunting and deforestation; fortunately there are some organizations like WWF that are helping in their protection.

Endangered animals: Armadillo

The armadillo is an American mammal of the order of the edentulous that can measure 15 cm to 1, 5 m depending of the species, with the body protected by a shell formed by bony 

lates covered with horny scales and mobile, so that can be wound on itself.

The armadillo is a living fossil, the oldest ancestor was discovered in Argentina and dates from the upper Paleocene.

It isvin extintion of th constant hunt that is the subject of the smoothness and flavor of the meat and the destruction of their environment

ENDANGERED ANIMALS : The Polar Bear.

The Polar Bear is in a lot of troubles because of global warming. If the temperature of the Earth goes up, the sea ice that the polar bear lives on will melt. 

This type of bear lives in the area surrounding the North Pole, the Arctic. 

They feeds on baby seals and reindeers but in winter they are vegetarian.

Male Polar Bear measures 2.5 m and weigh 350-700 kg; female Polar Bear measures 1.8 m and weight 150-250 kg. They have white fur very soft and thick.

Endangered Animals: Panda Bear.

This bear has only two contrasted colours, the white and the black. Theirs legs, theirs arms, theirs ears and theirs eyes are dark, but their belly and their faces are white.

 They love eating bamboo and they principally live in the Tibet and in Sichuan.

They are endangered animals because there are many poachers that hunt this beautifull animals, and the panda bears are also an endangered animal because they have difficulties to breed because they are very shy.

Animals in danger: The African penguin is in serious danger of becoming extinct!

    The African penguin, also known as the jackass penguin and black-footed penguin is a species of penguin, confined to southern African water.
   
 It is flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat. Also, it has distinctive pink patches of skin above the eyes and a black facial mask; the body upperparts are black and sharply delineated from the white underparts, which are spotted and marked with a black band.

   There are many reasons for its danger, including hunting them for oil, taking their eggs, destroying their natural environment, the weather, and a lack of food supply. All of these factors though have left many of them vulnerable and others at risk for extinction.