There are two lowland gorillas native to West Africa: the western lowland gorilla,which is the most numerous of the four gorilla subspecies, with over 100,000 individuals in the wild, and the Cross River gorilla, of which only a tiny population of a few hundred remains. populations have declined by over 60 percent during the past 25 years—and are projected to continue dropping over the coming decades. Causes for the increasing scarcity include habitat loss and illegal commercial hunting by poachers, who sell gorillas for food in West African marketsBut the largest killer of gorillas has been a deadly illness—the incurable ebola virus—which has ended the lives of up to 90 percent of these great apes in some forest areas.


javan rhino

The Javan rhinoceros is the most endangered of the world’s five rhinoceros species, with an estimated 40-60  remaining on the western tip of the Island of Java in Ujung Kulon National Park. The last member of another tiny population in Vietnam’s Cat Tien National Park was killed by poachers in 2011. The water- and swamp-loving Javan rhinoceros formerly ranged throughout Southeast Asia and Indonesia, but has been hunted to near extinction for its horn, which is used to make medicines. Although it is now protected, it may not have a large-enough breeding population to prevent the species from going extinct.

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Map of where they live

This is Where They Live

The most endangered of all the world’s whale species, the northern right whale. 350 individuals travel the Atlantic coasts of Canada and the US. During the whaling days of the 19th century, the right whale got its name because whalers considered it the “right” whale to kill, as it because was full of valuable whale oil, but it floated after it was dead, which made it easy to handle and process.It was driven to near extinction. Although the right whale is now protected, its small remnant population continues to suffer losses due to entanglements in commercial fishing gear: Whales drown after becoming wrapped in nets, lines and other equipment.We need your help to save this species.

The Northern Right Whale

The ivory-billed woodpecker, which lives—or lived—in the Southeastern part of the US as well as Cuba. This huge woodpecker was considered extinct until 2004, when a handful of tantalizing reports of sightings in Arkansas and Florida began to trickle in. Proof for the ivory-bill’s continued existence has remained elusive, and if a population does exist, it is likely to be tiny and extremely vulnerable. The ivory-billed woodpecker owes its near- or complete extinction to habitat loss (logging) as well as over-exploitation by humans, who hunted it for its feathers.

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                                         These are all the states that these birds live in.