List of endangered species in Vietnam
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The following is a list of endangered species
inhabiting Vietnam
Delacour's Langur
A type of leaf-eating langur that has an unusually long and bushy tail with white hips. It is also one of the most endangered primate
s in the world. Only about 300 Delacour's langurs are alive today, and experts fear they could be completely extinct by 2014 if the current rate of decline continues. The monkey
s are being pushed to the brink by hunting for the Chinese traditional medicine trade. Hunting has forced the animal into a few extreme strongholds, where steep limestone
cliffs grant a little protection from poachers
.
s effectively losing their voices. Researchers have been unable to identify the Bac Kan group as they have stopped their signature early morning songs. Males and females sing complex harmonies to mate and to mark territory.
horn.
Orca
The killer whale is a top predator of sharks and many other animals. Orcas have white
stomach
s. The killer whale can either eat fish and squid or eat seal
s sea lion
s sharks other whale
s penguin
. Orcas are at many aquarium
s performing tricks. Killer whales are actually dolphin
s. killer whales are in the family Delphinidae which is the family of ocean
living dolphins.
Christmas Island frigatebird
The Cristmas Island frigatebird is one of the birds (aves) that are native and endangered to Vietnam
. This frigatebird is Critically Endangered
.
Great hammerhead
The great hammerhead shark is a shark from the family Sphyrnidae (hammerhead sharks). The Great hammerhead shark
lives in tropical and sub tropical waters worldwide. The "hammer" is used to attack whiptail rays. The Great hammerhead can be found in many aquariums (such as the Georgia aquarium
). These animals need humans to keep going with conservation and stop hunting them for sharkfin soup.
Banded eagle ray
Banded eagle rays are widespread but Vulnerable. Banded eagle rays live in the open ocean, coral reef
s, and shallow sea
s.
is an amphibian that's Vulnerable. Tam Dao salamanders live only in the country Vietnam. The salamander
is threatened by loss of habitat.
. This turtle is native to Vietnam and China. This animal is currently Endangered.
Siamese crocodile
Saimese crocodiles are critically endangered. These animals prefer slow moving water such as swamps, rivers, and some lakes. Saimese crocodiles are threatened because of loss of habitat, illegal capture of wild crocodiles for suppply to commercial farms, and incidental capture/drowning in fishing nets and traps.
Vietnamese pheasant
The pheasant is listed endangered by the ICUN. Vietnamese pheasants only live in central Vietnam. They are threatened because of hunting and loss of habitat.
.
False killer whale
False killer whales are Oceanic dolphins that live off the coast of every continent all the way around except Antarctica. False killer whales can be found at SeaWorld Orlando
, the Enoshima aquarium, Ocean Adventure, and many more (maybe).
Indochinese tiger
The Indochinese tiger is also known as the Corbett's tiger. This species of tiger
used to be thought as a Malayan tiger
. The Indochinese tiger is the 2nd most common species
of tiger. It is the species that lives in Vietnam.
Endangered species
An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters...
inhabiting Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
Delacour's LangurDelacour's LangurThe Delacour's langur, or Delacour's lutung, is a critically endangered species of lutung endemic to Vietnam. It is considered to be one of the world's most endangered primate species...
(Trachypithecus delacouri)
A type of leaf-eating langur that has an unusually long and bushy tail with white hips. It is also one of the most endangered primatePrimate
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment...
s in the world. Only about 300 Delacour's langurs are alive today, and experts fear they could be completely extinct by 2014 if the current rate of decline continues. The monkey
Monkey
A monkey is a primate, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys...
s are being pushed to the brink by hunting for the Chinese traditional medicine trade. Hunting has forced the animal into a few extreme strongholds, where steep limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
cliffs grant a little protection from poachers
Poaching
Poaching is the illegal taking of wild plants or animals contrary to local and international conservation and wildlife management laws. Violations of hunting laws and regulations are normally punishable by law and, collectively, such violations are known as poaching.It may be illegal and in...
.
Black-crested Gibbon (Nomascus concolor)
All black, adult females vary from yellow and beige to orange-yellow and usually have dark hair on the chest or belly; infants are yellow with no tails and long arms. Pressure from hunters is blamed for the apeApe
Apes are Old World anthropoid mammals, more specifically a clade of tailless catarrhine primates, belonging to the biological superfamily Hominoidea. The apes are native to Africa and South-east Asia, although in relatively recent times humans have spread all over the world...
s effectively losing their voices. Researchers have been unable to identify the Bac Kan group as they have stopped their signature early morning songs. Males and females sing complex harmonies to mate and to mark territory.
Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
The rarest rhino. 0 are in cpativity and less than 50 in the wild. It's endangered because of hunting and loss of habitat. Javan rhinos main diets are low hanging leaves and grass. The Javan rhinoceros is hunted for it's keratinKeratin
Keratin refers to a family of fibrous structural proteins. Keratin is the key of structural material making up the outer layer of human skin. It is also the key structural component of hair and nails...
horn.
OrcaOrcaThe killer whale , commonly referred to as the orca, and less commonly as the blackfish, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family. Killer whales are found in all oceans, from the frigid Arctic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas...
or killer whale (Orcinus orca)
The killer whale is a top predator of sharks and many other animals. Orcas have whiteWhite
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be...
stomach
Stomach
The stomach is a muscular, hollow, dilated part of the alimentary canal which functions as an important organ of the digestive tract in some animals, including vertebrates, echinoderms, insects , and molluscs. It is involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication .The stomach is...
s. The killer whale can either eat fish and squid or eat seal
Pinniped
Pinnipeds or fin-footed mammals are a widely distributed and diverse group of semiaquatic marine mammals comprising the families Odobenidae , Otariidae , and Phocidae .-Overview: Pinnipeds are typically sleek-bodied and barrel-shaped...
s sea lion
Sea Lion
Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear-flaps, long fore-flippers, the ability to walk on all fours, and short thick hair. Together with the fur seal, they comprise the family Otariidae, or eared seals. There are six extant and one extinct species in five genera...
s sharks other whale
Whale
Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...
s penguin
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...
. Orcas are at many aquarium
Aquarium
An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants...
s performing tricks. Killer whales are actually dolphin
Dolphin
Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from and , up to and . They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating...
s. killer whales are in the family Delphinidae which is the family of ocean
Ocean
An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...
living dolphins.
Christmas Island frigatebirdChristmas Island FrigatebirdThe Christmas Frigatebird or Christmas Island Frigatebird is a frigatebird endemic to the Christmas Islands in the Indian Ocean...
(Fregata andrewsi)
The Cristmas Island frigatebird is one of the birds (aves) that are native and endangered to VietnamVietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
. This frigatebird is Critically Endangered
Critically Endangered
Critically Endangered is the highest risk category assigned by the IUCN Red List for wild species. Critically Endangered means that a species' numbers have decreased, or will decrease, by 80% within three generations....
.
Great hammerheadGreat hammerheadThe great hammerhead is the largest species of hammerhead shark, family Sphyrnidae, attaining a maximum length of 6.1 m . It is found in tropical and warm temperate waters worldwide, inhabiting coastal areas and the continental shelf...
(Sphyrna mokarran)
The great hammerhead shark is a shark from the family Sphyrnidae (hammerhead sharks). The Great hammerhead sharkShark
Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....
lives in tropical and sub tropical waters worldwide. The "hammer" is used to attack whiptail rays. The Great hammerhead can be found in many aquariums (such as the Georgia aquarium
Georgia Aquarium
The Georgia Aquarium, located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, at Pemberton Place, is the world's largest aquarium with more than of marine and fresh water housing more than 120,000 animals of 500 different species...
). These animals need humans to keep going with conservation and stop hunting them for sharkfin soup.
Banded eagle rayBanded eagle rayThe banded eagle ray is a species of fish in the Myliobatidae family. It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam,...
(Aetomylaeus nichofii)
Banded eagle rays are widespread but Vulnerable. Banded eagle rays live in the open ocean, coral reefCoral reef
Coral reefs are underwater structures made from calcium carbonate secreted by corals. Coral reefs are colonies of tiny living animals found in marine waters that contain few nutrients. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, which in turn consist of polyps that cluster in groups. The polyps...
s, and shallow sea
Sea
A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water, but the term is used in other contexts as well. Most commonly, it means a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, and is commonly used as a synonym for ocean...
s.
Vietnamese salamander (Paramesotriton deloustali)
The Viatnamese salamander or Tam Dao salamanderTam Dao Salamander
The Tam Dao Salamander or Vietnamese Salamander is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family.It is found only in Vietnam....
is an amphibian that's Vulnerable. Tam Dao salamanders live only in the country Vietnam. The salamander
Salamander
Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by a superficially lizard-like appearance, with their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant...
is threatened by loss of habitat.
Vietnamese leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri)
The Vietnamese leaf turtle is also known as the Black-breasted leaf turtle of Black-breasted hill turtleBlack-breasted Hill Turtle
The Black-breasted leaf turtle, Vietnamese leaf turtle or Black-breasted hill turtle is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae . It is found in China and Vietnam....
. This turtle is native to Vietnam and China. This animal is currently Endangered.
Siamese crocodileSiamese CrocodileSiamese crocodile is a freshwater crocodile native to Indonesia , Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam...
(Crocodylus siamensis)
Saimese crocodiles are critically endangered. These animals prefer slow moving water such as swamps, rivers, and some lakes. Saimese crocodiles are threatened because of loss of habitat, illegal capture of wild crocodiles for suppply to commercial farms, and incidental capture/drowning in fishing nets and traps.Vietnamese pheasantVietnamese PheasantThe Vietnamese Pheasant, or Vietnam Fireback, is a species of gallopheasant. Discovered in 1964, it is endemic to central Vietnam. Its range concentrates around Ke Go Nature Reserve in Ha Tinh Province.-References:*...
(Lophura hatinhensis)
The pheasant is listed endangered by the ICUN. Vietnamese pheasants only live in central Vietnam. They are threatened because of hunting and loss of habitat.Vietnamese tree frog
The Vietnamese tree frog is an endangered species mostly feeding on crickets and other pesky bugs. The Viatnamese tree frog is endangered thanks to deforestationDeforestation
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use....
.
False killer whaleFalse Killer WhaleThe False Killer Whale is a cetacean, and the third largest member of the oceanic dolphin family . It lives in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. As its name implies, the False Killer Whale shares characteristics, such as appearance, with the more widely known Orca...
(Pseudorca cassidens)
False killer whales are Oceanic dolphins that live off the coast of every continent all the way around except Antarctica. False killer whales can be found at SeaWorld OrlandoSeaWorld Orlando
SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park, and marine-life based zoological park, near Orlando, Florida. It is owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a subsidiary of The Blackstone Group...
, the Enoshima aquarium, Ocean Adventure, and many more (maybe).
Indochinese tigerIndochinese TigerThe Indochinese tiger or Corbett's tiger is a subspecies of tiger found in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam and formerly in China. Tigers in peninsular Malaysia, formerly classified as Indochinese, have recently been reclassified as a separate subspecies, Malayan tiger Panthera tigris...
(Panthera tigris corbetti)
The Indochinese tiger is also known as the Corbett's tiger. This species of tigerTiger
The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...
used to be thought as a Malayan tiger
Malayan Tiger
The Malayan tiger is a tiger subspecies that inhabits the southern and central parts of the Malay Peninsula and has been classified as endangered by IUCN in 2008 as the population was estimated at 493 to 1,480 adult individuals in 2003; none of the three subpopulations likely harbors more than 250...
. The Indochinese tiger is the 2nd most common species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of tiger. It is the species that lives in Vietnam.