One world is an animal conservation organisation that gives people all the information they need to contribute in anyway possible to help these magnificent animals survive and flourish once again. Saving nature is at the very heart of what we do here at OneWorld. We have made it our mission to find solutions that save the marvellous array of life on our planet by educating people on the present day and future problems we could encounter, applying the best science available and working closely with local communities. But our work is far from done. Humans are behind the current rate of species extinction, which is at least 100–1,000 times higher than nature intended. We’ve seen an astonishing 60% decline in the size of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians in just over 40 years. And the impacts will reach far beyond the potential cultural loss of iconic species like tigers, rhinos and whales. The good news is we’ve also seen what’s working. Oneworld has been part of successful wildlife recovery stories ranging from southern Africa’s black rhino to black bucks in the Himalayas. And this, in turn, is helping to protect rich and varied ecosystems while ensuring people continue to benefit from nature.
One world is an animal conservation organisation that gives people all the information they need to contribute in anyway possible to help these magnificent animals survive and flourish once again. Saving nature is at the very heart of what we do here at OneWorld.
We have made it our mission to find solutions that save the marvellous array of life on our planet by educating people on the present day and future problems we could encounter, applying the best science available and working closely with local communities. But our work is far from done. Humans are behind the current rate of species extinction, which is at least 100–1,000 times higher than nature intended. We’ve seen an astonishing 60% decline in the size of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians in just over 40 years. And the impacts will reach far beyond the potential cultural loss of iconic species like tigers, rhinos and whales. The good news is we’ve also seen what’s working. Oneworld has been part of successful wildlife recovery stories ranging from southern Africa’s black rhino to black bucks in the Himalayas. And this, in turn, is helping to protect rich and varied ecosystems while ensuring people continue to benefit from nature.
There are two recognized subspecies of tiger, the continental (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Sunda (Panthera tigris sondaica). The largest of all the Asian big cats, tigers rely primarily on sight and sound rather than smell for hunting. They typically hunt alone and stalk prey. A tiger can consume more than 80 pounds of meat at one time. On average, tigers give birth to two to four cubs every two years. If all the cubs in one litter die, a second litter may be produced within five months.
There are two recognized subspecies of tiger, the continental (Panthera tigris tigris) and the Sunda (Panthera tigris sondaica). The largest of all the Asian big cats, tigers rely primarily on sight and sound rather than smell for hunting. They typically hunt alone and stalk prey. A tiger can consume more than 80 pounds of meat at one time. On average, tigers give birth to two to four cubs every two years.
If all the cubs in one
litter die, a second litter may be produced within five months.
What threatens tigers?
Even though they are one of the most powerful predators on the planet,
they still need protecting from Habitat loss, human conflict, effects of climate change and tiger "farms" and captive tigers.
What are we doing to help?
We are preserving and connecting tiger habitat, monitoring tigers and their prey, building politcal will and elimanting the tiger trade.
What can you do to help?
Ask your members of congress to ensure laws to protect tigers, donate to charities like JUST
GIVING,
volunteer work on tiger conservation.
Once common throughout Africa and Asia, elephants have declined significantly during the 20th century, largely due to the illegal ivory trade. Though some populations are now stable and growing, poaching, human-elephant conflict, and habitat destruction continue to threaten the species. Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth and have distinctly massive bodies, large ears, and long trunks. They use their trunks to pick up objects, trumpet warnings, greet other elephants, or suck up water for drinking or bathing, among other uses. Both male and female African elephants grow tusks and each individual can either be left- or right-tusked, and the one they use more is usually smaller because of wear and tear. Elephant tusks serve many purposes. These extended teeth can be used to protect the elephant's trunk, lift and move objects, gather food, and strip bark from trees. They can also be used for defense. During times of drought, elephants even use their tusks to dig holes to find water underground.
Once common throughout Africa and Asia, elephants have declined significantly during the 20th century, largely due to the illegal ivory trade. Though some populations are now stable and growing, poaching, human-elephant conflict, and habitat destruction continue to threaten the species.
Elephants are the largest land mammals
on earth and have distinctly massive
bodies, large ears, and long trunks. They use their trunks to pick up
objects, trumpet warnings, greet other elephants, or suck up water for
drinking or bathing, among other uses. Both male and female African
elephants grow tusks and each individual can either be left- or
right-tusked, and the one they use more is usually smaller because of wear
and tear. Elephant tusks serve many purposes. These extended teeth can be
used to protect the elephant's trunk, lift and move objects, gather food,
and strip bark from trees. They can also be used for defense. During times
of drought, elephants even use their tusks to dig holes to find water
underground.
What threatens Elephants?
Habitat loss, Human-wildlife conflict, effects of climate change and the Ivory trade.
What are we doing to help?
We are reducing conflict between poeple and elephants, strengthening anti-poaching intiatives, stopping the ivory trade and protecting elephant habitat.
What can you do to help?
Ask your members of congress to ensure laws to protect elephants, donate to charities like
SHELDRICK
WILDLIFE TRUST, building politcal will and eliminating the ivory
trade.
Seven different species of sea (or marine) turtles grace our ocean waters, from the shallow seagrass beds of the Indian Ocean, to the colorful reefs of the Coral Triangle and the sandy beaches of the Eastern Pacific. While these highly migratory species periodically come ashore to either bask or nest, sea turtles spend the bulk of their lives in the ocean. OneWorld's work on sea turtles focuses on five of those species: green, hawksbill, loggerhead, leatherback, and olive ridley. Over the last 200 years, human activities have tipped the scales against the survival of these ancient mariners. Slaughtered for their eggs, meat, skin, and shells, sea turtles suffer from poaching and over-exploitation. They also face habitat destruction and accidental capture—known as bycatch—in fishing gear. Climate change has an impact on turtle nesting sites; it alters sand temperatures, which then affects the sex of hatchlings. Nearly all species of sea turtle are now classified as endangered, with three of the seven existing species being critically endangered.
Seven different species of sea (or marine) turtles grace our ocean waters, from the shallow seagrass beds of the Indian Ocean, to the colorful reefs of the Coral Triangle and the sandy beaches of the Eastern Pacific. While these highly migratory species periodically come ashore to either bask or nest, sea turtles spend the bulk of their lives in the ocean. OneWorld's work on sea turtles focuses on five of those species: green, hawksbill, loggerhead, leatherback, and olive ridley.
Over the last 200 years, human
activities have tipped the scales against
the survival of these ancient mariners. Slaughtered for their eggs,
meat, skin, and shells, sea turtles suffer from poaching and
over-exploitation. They also face habitat destruction and accidental
capture—known as bycatch—in fishing gear. Climate change has an
impact
on turtle nesting sites; it alters sand temperatures, which then
affects
the sex of hatchlings. Nearly all species of sea turtle are now
classified as endangered, with three of the seven existing species
being
critically endangered.
What threatens turtles?
Habitat loss, Climate change, overharvesting, illegl trade and pollution.
What are we doing to help?
We are preserving turtle habitat, monitoring them via satellite, minimizing climate change impacts and addressing overharversting and illegal trade.
What can you do to help?
Ask your members of congress to ensure laws to protect turtles, donate to charities like TURTLES FOUNDATION,
volunteer work on turtles conservation like Maldives - Marine and Turtle Conservation.
People usually think of leopards in the savannas of Africa but in the Russian Far East, a rare subspecies has adapted to life in the temperate forests that make up the northern-most part of the species’ range. Similar to other leopards, the Amur leopard can run at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour. This incredible animal has been reported to leap more than 19 feet horizontally and up to 10 feet vertically. The Amur leopard is solitary. Nimble-footed and strong, it carries and hides unfinished kills so that they are not taken by other predators. It has been reported that some males stay with females after mating, and may even help with rearing the young. Several males sometimes follow and fight over a female. They live for 10-15 years, and in captivity up to 20 years. The Amur leopard is also known as the Far East leopard, the Manchurian leopard or the Korean leopard.
People usually think of leopards in the savannas of Africa but in the Russian Far East, a rare subspecies has adapted to life in the temperate forests that make up the northern-most part of the species’ range. Similar to other leopards, the Amur leopard can run at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour. This incredible animal has been reported to leap more than 19 feet horizontally and up to 10 feet vertically.
The Amur leopard is
solitary. Nimble-footed and strong, it
carries and hides unfinished kills so that they are not
taken by other predators. It has been reported that some
males stay with females after mating, and may even help with
rearing the young. Several males sometimes follow and fight
over a female. They live for 10-15 years, and in captivity
up to 20 years. The Amur leopard is also known as the Far
East leopard, the Manchurian leopard or the Korean leopard.
What threatens leopards?
Poaching and illegal trade.
What are we doing to help?
Stopping poaching and illegal trade, monitoring leopards and their prey and protecting their habitat.
What can you do to help?
Ask your members of congress to ensure laws to protect leopards, donate to charities like WCS,
adopt a leopard here and elimanting the leopard
trade.
Polar bears are classified as marine mammals because they spend most of their lives on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. They have a thick layer of body fat and a water-repellant coat that insulates them from the cold air and water. Considered talented swimmers, they can sustain a pace of six miles per hour by paddling with their front paws and holding their hind legs flat like a rudder. Polar bears spend over 50% of their time hunting for food. A polar bear might catch only one or two out of ten seals it hunts, depending on the time of year and other variables. Their diet mainly consists of ringed and bearded seals because they need large amounts of fat to survive. Scientists have divided the total polar bear population into 19 units or subpopulations. Of those, the latest data from the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group show that one subpopulation is in decline (Southern Beaufort Sea) and that there is a high estimated risk of future decline due to climate change and data deficiency. Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the US under the Endangered Species Act in May 2008.
Polar bears are classified as marine mammals because they spend most of their lives on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. They have a thick layer of body fat and a water-repellant coat that insulates them from the cold air and water. Considered talented swimmers, they can sustain a pace of six miles per hour by paddling with their front paws and holding their hind legs flat like a rudder.
Polar bears
spend over 50% of their time hunting for
food. A polar bear might catch only one or two out
of
ten seals it hunts, depending on the time of year
and
other variables. Their diet mainly consists of
ringed
and bearded seals because they need large amounts of
fat
to survive.
Scientists have divided the total polar bear
population
into 19 units or subpopulations. Of those, the
latest
data from the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group show
that
one subpopulation is in decline (Southern Beaufort
Sea)
and that there is a high estimated risk of future
decline due to climate change and data deficiency.
Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea
ice
habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears
were
listed as a threatened species in the US under the
Endangered Species Act in May 2008.
What threatens polar bears?
Even though they are one of the most powerful predators on the planet,
they still need protecting from Indsutrial impacts, human conflict, effects of climate and unsustainable hunting.
What are we doing to help?
We are reducing industrial impact, monitoring them and their prey, protecting the last ice area of the artic and reducing conflict.
What can you do to help?
Ask your members of congress to ensure laws to protect polar bears, adopt a polar bear HERE
and raise awareness.
Rhinos once roamed many places throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa and were known to early Europeans who depicted them in cave paintings. At the beginning of the 20th century, 500,000 rhinos roamed Africa and Asia. By 1970, rhino numbers dropped to 70,000, and today, as few as 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild. Very few rhinos survive outside national parks and reserves due to persistent poaching and habitat loss over many decades. Three species of rhino—black, Javan, and Sumatran—are critically endangered. Today, a small population of Javan rhinos is found in only one national park on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Java. A mainland subspecies of the Javan rhino was declared extinct in Vietnam in 2011. Successful conservation efforts have led to an increase in the number of greater one-horned (or Indian) rhinos, from around 200 at the turn of the 20th century to more than 3,700 today. The greater one-horned rhino is one of Asia’s biggest success stories, with their status improving from endangered to vulnerable following significant population increases. However, the species still remains under threat from poaching for its horn and from habitat loss and degradation. In Africa, southern white rhinos, once thought to be extinct, now thrive in protected sanctuaries and are classified as near threatened. But the western black rhino and northern white rhinos have recently become extinct in the wild. The only two remaining northern white rhino are kept under 24-hour guard in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Black rhinos have doubled in number over the past two decades from their low point of fewer than 2,500 individuals, but total numbers are still a fraction of the estimated 100,000 that existed in the early part of the 20th century.
Rhinos once roamed many places throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa and were known to early Europeans who depicted them in cave paintings. At the beginning of the 20th century, 500,000 rhinos roamed Africa and Asia. By 1970, rhino numbers dropped to 70,000, and today, as few as 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild. Very few rhinos survive outside national parks and reserves due to persistent poaching and habitat loss over many decades. Three species of rhino—black, Javan, and Sumatran—are critically endangered.
Today,
a small population of
Javan rhinos is found in only one national
park on the northern tip of the Indonesian
island of Java. A mainland subspecies of the
Javan rhino was declared extinct in Vietnam
in 2011. Successful conservation efforts
have led to an increase in the number of
greater one-horned (or Indian) rhinos, from
around 200 at the turn of the 20th century
to more than 3,700 today. The greater
one-horned rhino is one of Asia’s biggest
success stories, with their status improving
from endangered to vulnerable following
significant population increases. However,
the species still remains under threat from
poaching for its horn and from habitat loss
and degradation.
In Africa, southern white rhinos, once
thought to be extinct, now thrive in
protected sanctuaries and are classified as
near threatened. But the western black rhino
and northern white rhinos have recently
become extinct in the wild. The only two
remaining northern white rhino are kept
under 24-hour guard in Ol Pejeta Conservancy
in Kenya. Black rhinos have doubled in
number over the past two decades from their
low point of fewer than 2,500 individuals,
but total numbers are still a fraction of
the estimated 100,000 that existed in the
early part of the 20th century.
What threatens rhinos?
Tough as they are, they are greatly under threat from poaching for their beautiful horns for the ivory trade and also habitat loss.
What are we doing to help?
We have our species recovery program, preserving their habitat and also elimanting the ivory trade.
What can you do to help?
Help with elimanting the ivory trade, adopt a rhino HERE
and you can also donate money to a great
rhino charity like SAVE THE RHINO.
Gorillas are gentle giants and display many human-like behaviors and emotions, such as laughter and sadness. In fact, gorillas share 98.3% of their genetic code with humans, making them our closest cousins after chimpanzees and bonobos. The largest of the great apes, gorillas are stocky animals with broad chests and shoulders, large, human-like hands, and small eyes set into hairless faces. The two gorilla species live in equatorial Africa, separated by about 560 miles of Congo Basin forest. Each has a lowland and upland subspecies. Gorillas live in family groups of usually five to 10, but sometimes two to more than 50, led by a dominant adult male—or silverback—who holds his position for years. The bond between the silverback and his females forms the basis of gorilla social life. Females become sexually mature around seven or eight years old but don’t begin to breed until a couple of years later. Males mature at an even greater age. Once a female begins to breed, she'll likely give birth to only one baby every four to six years and only three or four over her entire lifetime. This low rate of reproduction makes it difficult for gorillas to recover from population declines. Both gorilla species have been decreasing in numbers for decades, and a 2010 United Nations report suggests that they may disappear from large parts of the Congo Basin by the mid-2020s. Conservation efforts by OneWorld, other organizations, and governments are making a difference for gorillas. New protected areas are being designated for some gorilla populations, and the population of mountain gorillas has continued to increase in recent years, leading to its downlisting from Critically Endangered to Endangered in November 2018.
Gorillas are gentle giants and display many human-like behaviors and emotions, such as laughter and sadness. In fact, gorillas share 98.3% of their genetic code with humans, making them our closest cousins after chimpanzees and bonobos. The largest of the great apes, gorillas are stocky animals with broad chests and shoulders, large, human-like hands, and small eyes set into hairless faces. The two gorilla species live in equatorial Africa, separated by about 560 miles of Congo Basin forest. Each has a lowland and upland subspecies.
Gorillas live in family groups of
usually five to 10, but sometimes two to
more than 50, led by a dominant adult
male—or silverback—who holds his
position for years. The bond between the
silverback and his females forms the
basis of gorilla social life. Females
become sexually mature around seven or
eight years old but don’t begin to breed
until a couple of years later. Males
mature at an even greater age. Once a
female begins to breed, she'll likely
give birth to only one baby every four
to six years and only three or four over
her entire lifetime. This low rate of
reproduction makes it difficult for
gorillas to recover from population
declines. Both gorilla species have been
decreasing in numbers for decades, and a
2010 United Nations report suggests that
they may disappear from large parts of
the Congo Basin by the mid-2020s.
Conservation efforts by OneWorld, other
organizations, and governments are
making a difference for gorillas. New
protected areas are being designated for
some gorilla populations, and the
population of mountain gorillas has
continued to increase in recent years,
leading to its downlisting from
Critically Endangered to Endangered in
November 2018.
What threatens gorillas?
Habitat loss, hunting and trade, disease and weak law enforcement.
What are we doing to help?
We are preserving gorillas habitat, developing tourism, monitoring population and species protection.
What can you do to help?
Ask your members of congress to ensure laws to protect gorillas, donate to charities like THE GORILLA ORGANISATION,
adopt a gorilla HERE and also volunteer work.
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