Whatever survivors are wild individuals, they often can not resist the agility and thirst for human profit.
Although the Universe still surprises scientists with the discovery of new and new species of animals, hitherto unknown, it is unfortunate that they come to replace the disappearing or already extinct.
We will never see a sea cow, a cow antelope, a Tasmanian wolf, a West African black rhinoceros. But even recently the latter were several thousand. Some lucky man still managed to catch such a handsome man alive until 2013, when the final verdict was rendered - he died out. Who is next?
1. It seems the next one will also be a rhino, but only "white".
By the way, both black and white are essentially gray. They were called so by habitat. Which lives in the north of Sudan - white. Today, scientists are already seriously concerned about the artificial insemination of female Sudanese white rhinoceros, because the last male has already disappeared from the face of the Earth, and the females are only 5.
2. But it turns out the rhinos are still lucky that there are five of them! A tortoise with three claws and a beautiful name "Rafetus Svayno", named in honor of the naturalist from England - Robert Svayno, in nature there was only one.
She was found in one of the central lakes of Hanoi. Fortunately, two more have escaped from poachers in the zoo. And now scientists hope for the continuation of the family. We are waiting for the replenishment of the population!
3. Although a graceful animal called saola was discovered only in 1992, it was practically never seen in wildlife.
Therefore, scientists automatically assigned her status - "under threat of extinction." It is known only that there is a saol in the mountains of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
4. Even toads are beauties, and this confirmation is a bright orange "sunny" specimen.
Perhaps, because of her remarkableness, she suffers for life. The orange toad was only discovered in 1967 (Costa Rica's habitat), but already in the 90s only 11 individuals counted. There is no information about complete disappearance yet, but it is extremely difficult to meet it.
5. Only about twenty remained tiny night inhabitants of Madagascar - lemurs with a wonderful name "aye-aye".
Although their appearance, to put it mildly, is no less extravagant.
6. The current rapid development of China has practically left no chance for the reproduction of the giant panda that inhabits this region.
And the animal naturally has a weakly expressed craving for the opposite sex. Currently, scientists have to show pandas to pandas to save a population that is on the brink of extinction.
7. Far Eastern leopards, the rarest of the subspecies, left only 57.
Poachers hunt for them for the sake of valuable skins. But sometimes the shooting is carried out by the owners of the parks where the deer live, because the leopard is a threat to them. About 200 animals of this species can be seen at the zoo.
8. Not far from the leopard, the broad-leaved lemur, who was not more than 60 left free, left the leopard.
However, while it is possible to save about 150 in zoos. Destruction is promoted by deforestation, which is the habitat of this rare representative of the lemurs.
9. In 2010, pangolins were also recognized as a vanishing species of ancient placental mammals.
They are mercilessly exterminated because of supposedly medical meat and scales, which is not completely confirmed by science. It is almost impossible to restore the pangolin population, since it does not live in captivity and brings in a year only one cub.
10. Less than a hundred remains to this day birds called "shovel", inhabiting the summer in Chukotka, and in winter - in Southeast Asia.
The reasons are low productivity, the complexity of migration (the bird overcomes to wintering places up to 8 thousand km) and hunting for it in wintering areas.
11. It is not hard to guess about the place of the Javan rhinoceros - it's the island of Java.
The exterior of the giant is very memorable, its skin resembles a shell. On the freedom of these individuals did not remain at all. Less than 100 are preserved due to their residence in the national reserve Ujun-Kulon in Indonesia.
12. It would seem that pumas are not uncommon, but it is the Florida puma that is on the verge of extinction.
Statistics of 2011 counted no more than 160 individuals of this species. And if the panda prefers carefully to hide his sexual arousal, then the puma, on the contrary, shrieks it all over the whole district, thereby revealing himself to the poachers.
13. Filippinsky miniature crocodile remained not more than two hundred individuals.
Such a small predator that fits in his hand is easy to catch even inadvertently, doing fishing. The number borders on the mark of 200.
14. Although marine inhabitants, called Californian pigs, avoid meeting people in every possible way, in nature their numbers range from 100 to 300 individuals.
15. Very expensive on the black market skins handsome wild cats-oncill, for which they are exterminated poachers.
This cat is clearly suspicious, so he chose to climb higher on a tree. Oncilles live in the north of Argentina and in Brazil.