How many types of endangered animals are there?
Thanks to wonderful organizations like the The World Wildlife Fund awareness is being raised about our endangered animals (species). An endangered animal (species) is one whose numbers are dwindling and they are coming close to extinction. “An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. An endangered species is usually a taxonomic species, but may be another evolutionary significant unit. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based on the sample of species that have been evaluated through 2006” from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species The World Wildlife Fund: Who We Are – Environmental Conservation About WWF For more than 45 years, WWF has been protecting the future of nature. The largest multinational conservation organization in the world, WWF works
