Region
Endangered animals of Asia
Threatened species from the Himalayas and Southeast Asian forests to East Asia. Each record shows the species' global IUCN Red List category and links to authoritative sources. National legal status is separate — see the note below.
120 records · last reviewed
Data limitations
- These are educational summaries, not the official assessment. Conservation status can change as new science and threats emerge.
- We show the global IUCN Red List category. A species' national or local legal status can differ from its global category — national Red Books and protected-species laws vary by country.
- Each record shows a last-verified date and a data-confidence flag so you can see how current and how checked it is.
- Always verify the current status on the official IUCN Red List and the relevant national wildlife authority. FaunaHub does not replace conservation authorities.
Dataset last reviewed: Full data methodology →
Threatened species of Asia
Amur Leopard
Panthera pardus orientalis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
The Amur leopard is a northern subspecies of the leopard (Panthera pardus); cross-border protection has reportedly lifted its numbers from a few dozen to over a hundred.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewAsiatic Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus venaticus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBaiji
Lipotes vexillifer
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Trend unknown
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBali Myna
Leucopsar rothschildi
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBeluga Sturgeon
Huso huso
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Source of beluga caviar; heavily affected by overfishing.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBengal Florican
Houbaropsis bengalensis
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBornean Orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBowmouth Guitarfish
Rhina ancylostoma
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBurmese Roofed Turtle
Batagur trivittata
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Alligator
Alligator sinensis
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Bahaba
Bahaba taipingensis
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Giant Salamander
Andrias davidianus
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
One of the largest living amphibians.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Pangolin
Manis pentadactyla
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Sturgeon
Acipenser sinensis
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChristmas Frigatebird
Fregata andrewsi
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewEgyptian Tortoise
Testudo kleinmanni
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGanges Shark
Glyphis gangeticus
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGharial
Gavialis gangeticus
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Trend unknown
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGiant Ibis
Thaumatibis gigantea
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGreat Indian Bustard
Ardeotis nigriceps
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGrey-shanked Douc
Pygathrix cinerea
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewHainan Gibbon
Nomascus hainanus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Often cited as the world's rarest ape.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewHelmeted Hornbill
Rhinoplax vigil
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewIndian Vulture
Gyps indicus
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewJavan Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros sondaicus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewKaluga
Huso dauricus
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewKouprey
Bos sauveli
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Trend unknown
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewMekong Giant Catfish
Pangasianodon gigas
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewNorthern White-cheeked Gibbon
Nomascus leucogenys
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPhilippine Cockatoo
Cacatua haematuropygia
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPhilippine Crocodile
Crocodylus mindorensis
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPhilippine Eagle
Pithecophaga jefferyi
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPhilippine Pangolin
Manis culionensis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewRed-headed Vulture
Sarcogyps calvus
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewRed-shanked Douc
Pygathrix nemaeus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewRussian Sturgeon
Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSakhalin Sturgeon
Acipenser mikadoi
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSaola
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
One of the rarest large mammals; rarely seen since its 1992 description.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewShip Sturgeon
Acipenser nudiventris
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSiamese Crocodile
Crocodylus siamensis
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSiberian Crane
Leucogeranus leucogeranus
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSlender-billed Vulture
Gyps tenuirostris
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSpoon-billed Sandpiper
Calidris pygmaea
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSumatran Elephant
Elephas maximus sumatranus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSumatran Orangutan
Pongo abelii
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSumatran Rhinoceros
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSumatran Tiger
Panthera tigris sumatrae
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSunda Pangolin
Manis javanica
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Pangolins are widely reported among the most trafficked wild mammals.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewTapanuli Orangutan
Pongo tapanuliensis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Described in 2017; one of the most range-restricted great apes, in the Batang Toru ecosystem of Sumatra.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Smithsonian's National Zoo
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewTonkin Snub-nosed Monkey
Rhinopithecus avunculus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewWhite-rumped Vulture
Gyps bengalensis
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
South Asian vulture declines have been widely linked to the veterinary drug diclofenac.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewWild Bactrian Camel
Camelus ferus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
The wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) is the threatened wild form; the linked reference covers Bactrian camels broadly.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewYangtze Finless Porpoise
Neophocaena asiaeorientalis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewYangtze Giant Softshell Turtle
Rafetus swinhoei
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Among the rarest turtles on Earth.
Sources: IUCN Red List, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewYellow-crested Cockatoo
Cacatua sulphurea
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewAsian Elephant
Elephas maximus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewAsiatic Lion
Panthera leo persica
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBanggai Cardinalfish
Pterapogon kauderni
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBanteng
Bos javanicus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBlack-faced Spoonbill
Platalea minor
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Crocodile Lizard
Shinisaurus crocodilurus
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewCrested Ibis
Nipponia nippon
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewDhole
Cuon alpinus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewEgyptian Vulture
Neophron percnopterus
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewFlat-headed Cat
Prionailurus planiceps
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewForest Owlet
Athene blewitti
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Stable
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGanges River Dolphin
Platanista gangetica
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGiant Freshwater Stingray
Urogymnus polylepis
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGolden Snub-nosed Monkey
Rhinopithecus roxellana
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewHumphead Wrasse
Cheilinus undulatus
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Also called the Napoleon wrasse; a large, slow-growing reef fish.
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewIndian Pangolin
Manis crassicaudata
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewIndus River Dolphin
Platanista minor
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewJapanese Eel
Anguilla japonica
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewJavan Hawk-eagle
Nisaetus bartelsi
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewKomodo Dragon
Varanus komodoensis
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingLar Gibbon
Hylobates lar
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewLion-tailed Macaque
Macaca silenus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewMalayan Tapir
Tapirus indicus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewNorthern Bald Ibis
Geronticus eremita
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPileated Gibbon
Hylobates pileatus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewProboscis Monkey
Nasalis larvatus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPrzewalski's Horse
Equus ferus przewalskii
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPurple Frog
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, AmphibiaWeb (UC Berkeley)
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPygmy Slow Loris
Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Recently moved to the genus Xanthonycticebus; the linked reference uses the former Nycticebus name.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewRed Panda
Ailurus fulgens
- Group
- Mammals
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingSaker Falcon
Falco cherrug
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSiamang
Symphalangus syndactylus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSpeartooth Shark
Glyphis glyphis
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSunda Slow Loris
Nycticebus coucang
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewTiger
Panthera tigris
- Group
- Mammals
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingTomistoma
Tomistoma schlegelii
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, reptile-database.reptarium.cz
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewWestern Hoolock Gibbon
Hoolock hoolock
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Reference uses the former genus Bunopithecus.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewAsian Small-clawed Otter
Aonyx cinereus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewAsiatic Black Bear
Ursus thibetanus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewBumphead Parrotfish
Bolbometopon muricatum
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewCheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
- Group
- Mammals
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingClouded Leopard
Neofelis nebulosa
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewDugong
Dugong dugon
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Globally Vulnerable, but several regional sub-populations are assessed at higher risk.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewEastern Imperial Eagle
Aquila heliaca
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewFishing Cat
Prionailurus viverrinus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGaur
Bos gaurus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewGiant Panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
- Group
- Mammals
- Last verified
- Verified
Down-listed from Endangered to Vulnerable in 2016 following decades of habitat protection — a frequently cited example of status change.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingGreater One-horned Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros unicornis
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Also called the Indian rhinoceros; recovery in India and Nepal is often cited as a conservation success.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewHooded Crane
Grus monacha
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewIndonesian Coelacanth
Latimeria menadoensis
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewJapanese Giant Salamander
Andrias japonicus
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, AmphibiaWeb (UC Berkeley)
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewKing Cobra
Ophiophagus hannah
- Group
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewLeopard
Panthera pardus
- Group
- Mammals
- Last verified
- Verified
Several leopard subspecies (e.g. the Amur and Arabian leopard) are assessed at higher risk than the species as a whole.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingLion
Panthera leo
- Group
- Mammals
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web, Smithsonian's National Zoo
See FaunaHub animal profile →Source review pendingRed-crowned Crane
Grus japonensis
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewRhinoceros Hornbill
Buceros rhinoceros
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSarus Crane
Antigone antigone
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewShort-tailed Albatross
Phoebastria albatrus
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSloth Bear
Melursus ursinus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSnow Leopard
Panthera uncia
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSteller's Sea Eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewSterlet
Acipenser ruthenus
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewWhite-naped Crane
Antigone vipio
- Group
- Birds
- Population trend
- Decreasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Sources: IUCN Red List, BirdLife International
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewPère David's Deer
Elaphurus davidianus
- Group
- Mammals
- Population trend
- Increasing
- Last verified
- Verified
Listed Extinct in the Wild; survives in managed and reintroduced herds in China.
Sources: IUCN Red List, Animal Diversity Web
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial reviewChinese Paddlefish
Psephurus gladius
- Group
- Fish
- Population trend
- Trend unknown
- Last verified
- Verified
Declared Extinct by the IUCN in 2022; one of the largest freshwater fish.
Sources: IUCN Red List, FishBase
Detailed FaunaHub profile →Partial review
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