Animals that desperately need our help!

Some endangered birds that are having little to no conservation efforts took efforts in conserving them:
Giant ibis
New Caledonian owlet night jar
Sumatran ground cuckoo
New Zealand storm petrol
Caleo
Dwarf olive ibis
Madagascar serpent eagle
White collared kite
Junin grebe
Congo bay owl
White eyed river Martin
Peruvian diving petrol
Australian painted snipe
Cuban kite
Tooth billed pigeon
Nahans francolin
Sulu hornbill
Purple winged ground dove
Sangihe shrike thrush
Masked finfoot
Bahia tapaculo
Eskimo curlew
Bannerman's turaco
Ashy storm petrol
White throated storm petrol
Dark winged trumpeter
Zapata rail
Sulu bleeding heart
Madagascar serpent eagle
Makira woodhen
Titicaca grebe
Kittliz's murrelet
Udzungwa forest partridge
Subdesert mesite
Long whiskerd owlet
Crow honeyeater
Banded ground cuckoo
Flores hawk eagle
Tachria antpitta
Becks storm petrol
Blue eyed ground dove
Javan trogon
Pulitzer's long bill
Pernambuco Pygmy owl
Jamaica petrol
Wood snipe
Rio de Jenerio antwren
 
I'm terribly concerned for the vaquita. Less than 60 left! Maui's dolphin ain't doing too hot either.
 
TheMightyOrca said:
I'm terribly concerned for the vaquita. Less than 60 left! Maui's dolphin ain't doing too hot either.
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Last time I heard there were 200 vaquita left! What is balling to them all? According to Wikipedia in May 2016 there were only around 46 Maui's dolphins in the world!
 
Some more animals literally on the brink of extinction:

Pygmy tarsiers (there are 3 known wild individuals and those 3 and another fourth (which escaped so we cannot confirm it is still alive) were sighted in 2008)

Mariana pigeon

Red crested tree rat (one individual was seen in 2011 before that nobody had seen one since 1898)
 
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animal_expert01 said:
Pygmy tarsiers (there are 3 known wild individuals and those 3 and another fourth (which escaped so we cannot confirmn it is still alive) were sighted in 2008)
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This doesn't mean they are "on the brink", just seldom seen by biologists in their environment. IUCN lists the species as Data Deficient, meaning they don't have enough information to determine if they are threatened or not. The fact that four were seen would suggest there is a probably a reasonable population.


animal_expert01 said:
Mariana pigeon
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Also not on the brink, with several thousand individuals still in the wild.

animal_expert01 said:
Red crested tree rat (one individual was seen in 2011 before that nobody had seen one since 1998)
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That should read 1898.

:p

Hix
 
Another example is the Balkan lynx (but it is a subspecies of Eurasian lynx - but that it is disputed), found in small scattered areas in Western Balkans (mostly in national park Mavrovo in R. Macedonia), and with aproximately 50 individuals left, and currently none in captivity. It has amber (between gold and orange) body color with less-defined spots.
 
Nikola Chavkosk said:
Another example is the Balkan lynx (but it is a subspecies of Eurasian lynx - but that it is disputed), found in small scattered areas in Western Balkans (mostly in national park Mavrovo in R. Macedonia), and with aproximately 50 individuals left, and currently none in captivity. It has amber (between gold and orange) body color with less-defined spots.
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According to Wikipedia there are now only around 35-40 left in Macedonia and very few now in Albania (Any where between 20-15) :(. Why would somebody want to hunt such an awesome animal? Is it for there coat?
 
animal_expert01 said:
According to Wikipedia there are now only around 35-40 left in Macedonia and very few now in Albania (Any where between 20-15) :(. Why would somebody want to hunt such an awesome animal? Is it for there coat?
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For the coat, and that more often than not, hunters are idiots in my mind - don't know even that this animal is so rare.
 
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