Capturing the Cause
For some of my endangered species drawings, I attempt to also capture the reason(s) why an animal is threatened with extinction. Even in the remote Amazon and Pantanal, the pollution menaces the giant otter, while the Sumatran tiger's existence is threatened largely thanks to deforestation, its jungle kingdom supplanted to make way for acacia plantations.
For some of my endangered species drawings, I attempt to also capture the reason(s) why an animal is threatened with extinction. Even in the remote Amazon and Pantanal, the pollution menaces the giant otter, while the Sumatran tiger's existence is threatened largely thanks to deforestation, its jungle kingdom supplanted to make way for acacia plantations.
Giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
Current Range: Northern South America, especially the Amazon River and the Pantanal.
Conservation Status: Endangered
Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis)
Current Range: Central Ethiopia
Conservation Status: Endangered
Somali wild ass (Equus africanus somaliensis)
Current Range: Northeast Africa, from eastern Eritrea to Somalia
Conservation Status: Critically Endangered (pop. c. 700-1000 in the wild)
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
Current Range: Sumatra, Indonesia
Conservation Status: Critically Endangered (441-679 as of 2008)
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