Endangered animals

This year, the list of endangered species in the world has been added to more than 1,000 species and raised the total to 41,415 species. The red list has been announced today by the World Conservation Association (IUCN).

The population of gorillas in the lowlands is increasingly narrowed because the land is destroyed by humans, and they are also attacked by Ebola virus.

The Chinese river dolphin has been downgraded from the serious endangered (potentially extinct) list in this year's publication. The population of this gray-green animal has declined dramatically in the past 30 years. They live mainly in the Yangtze River in China.

Egyptian vultures have been severely degraded along with many other vultures. They must cope with increasingly narrow living areas, lack of food and drug poisoning.

Santa Catalina island rattles in Mexico have beautiful skins that make them the target of hunters. Their living areas are also narrowed as cities expand.

The species of Banggai striped fish often raised in fish tanks is also on the red list this year. In nature, they are only found in the Banggai Islands in Indonesia. Human pressure such as fishing and climate change also leads to a decline in this population.

Despite the fierce appearance and body up to 6 meters long, Indian crocodiles are not carnivorous, they just like to eat fish. The long, flat snout makes them easy to distinguish from other species and quickly catch prey. Accommodation has been narrowed and fishing has pushed the species to an endangered species.

For the first time, corals were included in the red book 2007. Abnormal weather events such as El Nino pushed Galapagos corals into critical condition. Scientists worry that global warming will make El Nino appear more and more and make coral unrecoverable.