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| A big cat that is poached for its beautiful fur, their habitat helps other species of animal to survive, they live in rocky moutains in solitude. |
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| Inhabits Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, Deserts and Xeric Shrublands, hunted for their horns and food, conservation of rhinos provides larger habitat for animals such as elephants. |
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| Found in oceans mostly, coral reefs, sometimes beaches, Crtically endangered, help maintain health of coral reefs and sea grass beds, saught after for tortoise shells, help make jewlery. |
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| Inhabit oceans, vital soruce of income as a draw for ecotourism in coastal communities, Critically Endangered, bycatch, collection of their eggs are valuable. |
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| Live in forests high in the mountains, critically endangered, an ape, war destroys their habitats, diseases spreads, charcoal harvesting destroys their habitat and so do traps for other animals. |
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| Rarity and distinctiveness make it important, often caught in snares and the loss of their forests destroy them, critically endangered. it is a mamal cattle like creature. |
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| Believed to be extinct, critically endangered species which are hunted frequently, highly fragmented habitats, they are hunted as pests and are big cats. |
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| Critically endangered, habitat tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, disperse seeds over a huge area, widespread forest fires destroy them. |
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| Critcally endangered, worlds smallest porpoise, critcally endangered, close to the shore usually in the gulf of california, most endangered cetacean, natural predators and bycatch destroys their population. |
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| Gorilla subspecies, found in cameroon, central african republic, democratic republic of congo and equatorial guinea, poaching and disease destroys them. |
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| Endangered, found in deserts, forests and grassland in southern africa and east africa, killings by humans, viral diseases like rabies, habitat loss and competing with large predators. |
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| Endangered, lives in forests, ensures future for other species and wild spaces, poaching the elephants for their ivory tusks, high juvenile mortality, low breeding success, capture for domestic use, loss of habitats and confined to islands. |
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| Endangered, Found in dry and wet diciduous forests, grassland and temperate forests, mangrove forests, one tiger = 25,000 acres of forests, illegal trade for their skin adn status symbols, loss of prey, the loss of their habitat through forest clearing. |
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| Endangered, found in tropical and subtropical mosit broadleaf forests, seed dispersal, deforestation of tropical rainforests. |
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| Found in Grasslands, one of th emost endangered mammals, habitat loss, reduced pre populations and non native disease destroys black footed ferets. |
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| Found in the ocean, largest animal, top of the food chain, threatened by environmental change such as habitat loss and toxics, they become entangled in fishing gear. |
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| Inhabit oceans, top predators in marine food chain, overfishing and pirate fishing destroy the populations. |
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| Found in forests, closest genetic relatives to human beings, civil warefare destroys their land, poaching and loss of habitat as well |
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| Most threaten subspecies, lowland rainforests and tropical, swamp and mountain forests, seed dispersel, forest fires, soemtimes shot, they are traded and exported. |
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| Endangered, live in forests, under tremendous pressure everywhere else they live, pushed towards extinction by humans, disease such as ebolas affects various apes, used as bushmeat as well |
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