Animals that desperately need our help!

Only 3 Yangtze giant river turtles now sadly

 

Maybe there are several others who are still not discovered, in the rivers...

 

Looks like another animal has fallen fate to the utter destruction of the yahngyze river just like the bahji

 

Isn't this the wild population though? I read that there was a couple hundred in captivity.

 

Yes if you count the captive ones there are about 300

 

As I know the captive population of South China tigers consists of two bloodlines, namely the Guiyang and Shanghai Lines, originated from six wild-caught cats (No.3, No.6, No.7, No.8, No.12, No.26). All but one was from Guizhou province in southwest China, while No.26 was caught from Fujian province in the southeast. Luo (2004) identified two phylogenetic lineages in the captive population, one of which (representing Shanghai Line) was indistinguishable from P. t. corbetti. (Luo tested only five tigers, but a 2008 research testing more than fifty captive tigers got the same conclusion.) It is now widely accepted that No.26 is more likely an Indochinese tiger, and only those from Guizhou are “true” South China tigers. As the last “pure” descendent from Guiyang Line died in 2002, there is no “pure-bred” South China tiger left in captivity. However, Fujian is traditionally thought as the historical range of South China tigers. In fact “Amoy” (now commonly known as Xiamen) is a city in Fujian, and No.26 was caught five hundred miles to the North of the south limit of P. t. amoyensis range. There might be a wide transitional zone shared by two subspecies. (It would be interesting to test more historical South China tiger specimens.) Personally I don’t see “purity” as a big problem here~

 

Would a moderator please change the name of this these to "Animals that desperately need our help" as the name doesn't fit it write and I don't be live these animals have no chance of surviving. Also knew update!

Still only one Rabb's fringed limb tree frog

There are still around 25 hanian gibbons

 

Sorry got my info if Wikipedia again.

 

Barbary lions?
Apparently there are some pure breed left in zoos is this true? Before I researched them I thought they were extinct? Are they or are they just extinct in the wild?

 

Extinct all around. The "Barbarys" in zoos only look the part (phenotypic). None were found to be actually Barbary when tested.

 

Where are Spix's macaw? Also Glaucous macaw and Baiji.

 

Spix's Macaw has a pretty decent-sized captive population, not to mention a bird was recently found in the wild.

The Glaucous Macaw and Baiji are likely Extinct already.

~Thylo

 

Well ''officially'' all of them are critically endangered ... (following the IUCN)

I still consider the Baiji and the Glaucous macaw as extinct , but I just wanted to throw that here .

 

That's awesome! I don't know one was discovered in the wild! Have they spotted more since or just the one?

 

More information about spix macaw in this thread

 

Well, since this is a discussion of animals that have no chances, nothing better than species that maybe are extinct.

 

Once again can a moderator please change the name of this thread to "Animals that desperately need our help!".