Mariana Calderon

Common name: West African Black Rhino Scientific name: Diceros Bicornis Longipes Habitat: Desserts, grasslands, and forests. Cause of Extinction: Poachers hunted the rhino for its horn, which is believed by some in Yemen and China to possess aphrodisical powers.

Common name: Leatherback Turtle Scientific name: Dermochelys Coriacea Habitat: Open waters and costal areas. Threats: Some of them are taken for their meat, people take their eggs and sell them, overfishing, and pollution. Approximate population: 34,000 nesting females Measures to protect it: Protect nesting females turtles and their nests from poachers and predators, sustainable fisheries, projects for cleaning the costal areas.

Common name: Panda Scientific name: Ailuropoda Melanoleuca Habitat: Bamboo forests high in the mountains in Western China. Threats: Destruction of the habitat, interruption of migration routes, and consumption of their meat. Approximate population: 1,600 in the wild (2004). Measures to protect it: Don’t eat or purchase wild meat, protect their habitat, create biological corridors.