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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports that Southeast Asian countries rank among the highest in the world for density of endangered species. Nine countries in the world's top 20-list of countries with the most endangered mammal species are in Southeast Asia. [8]
The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is a pangolin native to the northern Indian subcontinent, northern parts of Southeast Asia and southern China.It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2014, as the wild population is estimated to have declined by more than 80% in three pangolin generations, equal to 21 years.
Pages in category "Critically endangered fauna of Asia" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A recent report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) listed 234 new species from the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia. Some of the animals discovered include the lightweight shrew mole ...
The Tapir Specialist Group, a unit of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, strives to conserve biological diversity by stimulating, developing, and conducting practical programs to study, save, restore, and manage the four species of tapir and their remaining habitats in Central and South America and Southeast Asia.
Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus Nycticebus.Found in Southeast Asia and nearby areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines in the east, and from Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south.
Extinct from 99% of its original range, the Siamese crocodile is considered one of the least studied and most critically endangered crocodilians in the world. [11] Although few wild populations remain, more than 700,000 C. siamensis are held on commercial crocodile farms in Southeast Asia. [11]
The Sunda pangolin is currently considered to be critically endangered. [1] As of 2016, all eight pangolin species are listed on CITES Appendix I, which prohibits commercial international trade of wild-caught specimens or their body parts. [13] China raised the protection status of all pangolin species to the highest level in 2020. [14]