Mariana Calderon

Endangered and Extinct Species

Common name: West African Black RhinoScientific name: Diceros Bicornis LongipesHabitat: Desserts, grasslands, and forests. Cause of Extinction: Poachers hunted the

rhino for its horn, which is believed by some in Yemen and China to possess aphrodisical powers.

West African Black Rhino

Common name: Leatherback TurtleScientific name: Dermochelys Coriacea Habitat: Open waters and costal areas.Threats: Some of them are taken for their meat,

people take their eggs and sell them, overfishing, and pollution.

Approximate population: 34,000 nesting femalesMeasures to protect it: Protect nesting females

turtles and their nests from poachers and predators, sustainable fisheries, projects for cleaning the costal areas.

Leatherback Turtle

Common name: PandaScientific name: Ailuropoda Melanoleuca

Habitat: Bamboo forests high in the mountains in Western China.

Threats: Destruction of the habitat, interruption of migration routes, and consumption of their meat.

Approximate population: 1,600 in the wild (2004).

Measures to protect it: Don’t eat or purchase wild meat, protect their habitat, create biological corridors.

Panda