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Which of your animals are endangered?

Perth Zoo has a number of animals that fall in to the different IUCN Red List categories. Please look at the list below.

Threatened

Lower Risk

Critically Endangered

Silvery Gibbon
Sumatran Orangutan
Sumatran Tiger
Western Swamp Tortoise

Near Threatened

Rothschild’s Giraffe
Southern White Rhinoceros
Bleeding Heart Pigeon
Hamadryas Baboon
Koala
Nicobar Pigeon
Northern Quoll
Oriental Small-clawed Otter
South-west Carpet Python
Tammar Wallaby


Endangered

African Painted Dog
Asian Elephant
Baudin’s Cockatoo
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Carnaby’s Cockatoo
Cotton-top Tamarin
Dibbler
Nepalese Red Panda
Numbat
Red-tailed Phascogale
Woma


Least Concern

All other evaluated species


Vulnerable

Black-flanked Rock-wallaby
Cheetah
Chuditch
Djoongari (Shark Bay Mouse)
Double-wattled Cassowary
Galapagos Tortoise
Ghost Bat
Lancelin Island Skink
African Lion
Long-nosed Potoroo
Malaysian Box Tortoise
Malleefowl
Quokka
Radiated Tortoise
Ring-tailed Lemur
Sun Bear
Western Ringtail Possum

Data Deficient

White-cheeked Gibbon

 

 

 

Reference:
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
www.iucnredlist.org


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