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Fact Files About the Three Most Endangered Species in the World

Nicole Anson
Aug 23, 2016
2 min read

Today is a fact file on three animals... the three most Endangered animals in the world! They are the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, the Amur Leopard and the Javan Rhinoceros! Here we go, from most endangered to the least out of the three.

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers were considered extinct in 2004 but in April 2005, some bird hunters found one in a swamp forest in Arkansas, America. Ever since, people in Southeastern America have been searching to find these. No one knows how many are out there but they are not extinct.

These woodpeckers are carnivores, which mean they only eat meat or other smaller animals. They live about 20 to 30 years in the wild and their average wingspan size is 46 to 51 centimetres. An adults average size is 76 to 79 and they weigh about 450 to 570 grams, which mean their pretty big birds!

Amur Leopard

Amur Leopards live in Russia and they use to live in China and Korea as well but they became extinct in those places. A census in 2007 counted that they only had 14 to 20 adult leopards and 5 to 6 cubs. It may of increased or decreased but they are still critically endangered. They die because of poaching (illegal hunting), forest fires, inbreeding and habitat loss.

Amur Leopards are carnivores as well, so they hunt for their own food. They like to eat a variety of animals like roe deer, sika deer, badgers and hares. Male leopards weigh at an average of 32 to 48 kilograms and females weigh much smaller at 25 to 43 kilograms. Amur Leopards live for 10 to 15 years in the wild and 20 years in captivity.

Javan Rhinoceros

There are only 40 to 60 Javan Rhinos left in the world in Ujung Kulon National Park, Java Island, Indonesia. There was some rhinos in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam but they were all killed by illegal hunting in 2011. People kill them for their horns because they are used to make Asian folk medicine.

Javan Rhinos are omnivores, meaning they only eat plants. They don't just drink any water, they only drink saltwater (disgusting right?!?). They measure at an average height of 1.4 to 1.7 metres from their shoulder and weigh at an average of 900 to 2,300 kilograms! They live about 35 to 40 years in the wild.