Endangered Species In Southeast Asia
Wouldnt you want to see these endangered species survive for another 50 years or even possibly forever.
Endangered species in southeast asia. As primates are related they are genetically similar. A large proportion of this trade is domestic and does not cross international boundaries for example products such as medicinal plants charcoal wild meat and fisheries and therefore is outside the potential scope of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered. The green sea turtles love to nest in some parts of Southeast Asia including Indonesia.
AFP Photo There are more than 400 species of primates across the world and at least 98 species recognised in Southeast Asia. China Indonesia Sumatra Nepal Southeast Asia. This file photo shows a baby Douc langur playing with its mother.
China India Iran Mongolia Turkmenistan. The region has among the worlds fastest recent rates of habitat loss and has seen an explosion in over. Southeast Asia is globally important for biodiversity but has high levels of threatened species.
The region has an extraordinary rate of species discovery with more than 2216 new species described between 1997 and 2014 alone. There are about 918 endangered species in the wider East Asia and Pacific region alone. Some estimate that over 40 of all plant and animal species in Southeast Asia could go extinct during the 21st century src.
Not only does Indonesia harbour the highest concentration of. Asia has every kind of climate that happens on Earth. Tigers elephants rhinos orangutans leopards tapir banteng dholes all of the species within these groups are either classified as endangered or critically endangered in the region.
188 of these are located in Indonesia. Land and freshwater vertebrate species. Scroll down to see more content.