How many animals are on the endangered species list?

Question

How many animals are on the endangered species list?

Answer 1

tough to say. new ones are being put on each day!

Answer 2

This number is almost impossible to pin down.  The first consideration is the organization, government, or NGO doing the counting -- they all have different factors, variables and considerations calculated into how they determine if a species is "endangered".  Add to this new species being discovered daily (that we simple have no idea on how many their are), species we thought extinct suddenly being "rediscovered" and gross over estimates of species we thought were stable -- well, you can see the trouble in getting an accurate head count.

The link below to the World Wildlife Fund is a good place to look to appreciate the far ranging scope of how difficult it is to determine the number of endangered species -- they don't even want to venture a guess.

My suggestion is that if this is a topic you feel passionate about they act!  Find a species local to you that you feel is important and do what you can to help them -- donate your time, money and your vote!  Find a way to make a significant weekly effort that helps this species stay with us.

Answer 3

that list changes practically by the day

Of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

A lot of human activity is speeding that up since we tend to overpower all the other species in one way or another.

Some reasons why animals are being wiped out ,in the forrests are:

The hunting of exotic species for the consumer market

only about 10% of the animals caught survive

The hunting of animals for food by settlers

Forrest fires ,that have started because of slash and burning of forrest ,to clear the land for farming, had gotten out of control

The loss of Habitat because the conditions have changed ,e.g less humidity because of surrounding farmlands ,or overpumping of rivers for human use(farming and utility)

Because of contamination of the waters ,

Expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's

clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years

the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.

TV put out a series of documentaries

there are campaigns in the News papers

and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

The jungle gets smaller by the day

more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees

It is an impossible situation

as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

And the Animals will continue to be trapped ,as long as people keep buying the exotic animals

CLIMATE CHANGE

And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,

vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

Recent studies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shown that bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." The studies also revealed that the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.

If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with that would ensue major economic disruption and possibly famine.

Bees are not the only polinators but if these things are happening to bees we can bet on it that other insects are also in trouble ,on top of this many people are spraying for mosquitos ,with drastic effects .

So much follows the insects in the food chains ,that we can expect a lot of very bad changes in the environment .

And now the quest for Ethanol that intends to replace Indigenous forests for mono culture plantations to produce wood for pulp,will wipe out all the inhabitants of those forests in the process

the only thing that lives in these forests is plagues of insects that are controlled by pesticides.

the trees are chemically grown with fertilizers,and heavily irigated with water needed for the surounding comunities.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

It will be a sorry future for the Animals ,and we will be close behind.

Everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor events any more

Answer 4

the list is to long .you can find the details at these 2 sites..

www.iucnredlist.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_end...

Answer 5

way more than it should be.

Answer 6

lots,not sure how many.but there`s:the black,white and indian rhinos,fur seals,almost all kinds of whales,sea turtles,maybe all of the galapagos animals and alot more

Answer 7

About 800,000 endangered animals, or roughly 40% of 2 million described animal species (ten million thought to exist). On an unrelated side note there are roughly 280,000 species of plants and it was my understanding over 8,000 are endangered and around 1,600+ (or 20%) are critically endangered.

EDIT EDIT: 1,528 animals are critically endangered.

Answer 8

I think they just included you.