Amazon Rainforest Animals Endangered

These animals reside in the forests of Southeast Asia Central America and South America.

Amazon rainforest animals endangered. Every year the International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN publishes a list of endangered animals. Of all animal species call the Amazon rainforest home. The red faced uakari Cacajao calvus is one of the endangered monkeys in the Amazon Rainforest.

This particular animal is found in parts of Russia and China. 10 Endangered species of Amazon Rainforest Wildlife. The poison dart frogs live in the tropical rainforest which usually stay near a water source such as a pond or stream.

The Amazon rainforest boasts some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth. South Americas Amazon is the worlds largest rainforest. Amazonian jaguar is one of the endangered species of Amazon Rainforest Wildlife.

Tribal communities want to protect rainforest and we must do everything to support their legitimate and. Design Animations by Julia Steiman. This jaguar is famous for being the largest feline and one of the South American wild cats especially in the Amazon area.

Keeping with the depressing theme of endangered life the name uakari is from an extinct tribe that inhabited the Amazon Rainforest and we will never know its true meaning. The South American Tapir. Tapir Tapirus is a group of pig-like forest animals that have round bodies brief necks and trunk-like proboscis noses.

Every day Endangered Species International ESI works to protect and save rainforest. There are around 234 species of poison dart frogs known to humans of which twenty eight percent are endangered due to destruction of rainforests. Yet due to deforestation habitat destruction climate change and hunting many species are endangered.