Introduction

This web page is about endangered species and how we can help. We chose this topic because we want to show people how they can help, by giving money to animal charities.

Bengal Tigers

Our first endangered animal that needs help is the Bengal tiger. There has been a huge decrease in the population of Bengal tigers. The number of Bengal tigers left in the wild has shrunk from 100,000 to 4,000 over the last century. Their main treats are loss of habitat, poaching, loss of prey and the trade in tiger parts for Eastern medicines. Most Bengal tigers now live in protected areas in India. Anti – poaching task forces have been set up and there is also a trade an on tiger product in many countries.
Giant Panda

With its destinctive black and white and cuddly looks .The giant panda is one of the worlds most familiar mammals. It is also one of the rarest because much of its habitat ,the mist shrouded mountain forests of China ,has been has been lost over the las 100 years. There are now many conservation programmes in place to try to save the animal from extinction.
     
99 per cent of the giant panda’ diet comprises branches , stems and leaves of the bamboo plant. This is a nutritionally poor sorce of food , so it has to eat 12-15kg a day so it doesn’t get hungry till it’s next feeding time.However, if young bamboo shoots are avaible, its intake can reach 38kg. The panda forages mostly on the ground but can climb trees to reach tasty morsels. An extra ‘digit’on the front paws – a specially adapted wrist bone that acts like a thumb and enables it to grasp objects – helps to gathr foods. Zoo visitors enjoy watching giant pandas eat. when a pandas eats they like to sit up right. This posture leaves thier front paws to be able to hold their food.
African Elephant

African elephants are well known for endangerd animal’s there re only about 300,00 – 600,000 left. Thier main theats are poatching and loss of habitat.

Ivory poachers

About 50 years ago there was about 5 million African elephants in Africa and they wondered freely through the savannah and through forests in West Africa. In 1989 there was an international ban on trading in ivory making it illegal to export ivory.