The Learning Zone: Extinct & Endangered. Museums are probably the only places you can see extinct animals and often the only places you can see some endangered animals. Although we prefer animals to be left in the wild today, scientists can use the information they gain from museum collections to understand more about the animals still in the wild. Select one of the links below to find out more about animals in the Museum. Dodo Coelacanth Thylacine Blue whale Golden toad Giant panda Passenger pigeon Schaus' swallowtail Or find out what extinction really is, and meet our hippo by answering these questions. What does being extinct mean? What are the causes of extinction? What can you do to help? There are heaps of different facts, figures, pictures and resources about extinct and endangered animals in this section. Find out about the extinct and endangered animals in the Museum. Go to the Homepage to find out about hippos and the causes of extinction.
Species | Protecting Wildlife | World Wildlife Fund. ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species. Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade.
Despite appeals for support, just 85 of our 5.6 million users in 2018 made a donation. Endangered Species Guide.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Wildlife Conservation, Endangered Species Conservation | WWF. Endangered Species.