Vulnerable Species

Cacajao calvus

The bald uakari is a small Amazonian monkey best known for its strikingly bare, bright red face, found in seasonally-flooded forests along the Amazon and its tributaries.

Acinonyx jubatus

The cheetah is the fastest land animal on Earth, built for explosive short sprints across the open grasslands and semi-desert of Africa.

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

The giant panda is a bear native to the mountain forests of central China, famous for a diet made up almost entirely of bamboo despite a digestive system built for meat.

Hippopotamus amphibius

The hippopotamus is one of the largest land mammals, spending most of the day submerged in African rivers and lakes to keep its huge body cool.

Ophiophagus hannah

The king cobra is the world's longest venomous snake, found across the forests of South and Southeast Asia, and is unusual among snakes for building a nest to guard its eggs.

Dermochelys coriacea

The leatherback is the largest sea turtle species in the world and the only one without a hard bony shell, ranging farther into cold water than any other reptile.

Panthera leo

The lion is one of the world's most recognizable big cats, known as the 'king of the jungle' despite living mainly on open savanna, and is the only cat species that lives in large social groups called prides.

Ursus maritimus

The polar bear is the largest land carnivore on Earth, superbly adapted to hunting seals across the sea ice of the Arctic Circle.

Setonix brachyurus

The quokka is a small wallaby found almost exclusively on a handful of islands off Western Australia, widely nicknamed 'the world's happiest animal' for its permanent smile-like expression.

Panthera uncia

The snow leopard is an elusive big cat adapted to life in the high, cold mountains of Central and South Asia, so rarely seen it's often called the 'ghost of the mountains'.

Ovis vignei

The urial is a wild sheep species native to the dry hills and mountains of Central and South Asia, recognized by the male's large curling horns.

Odobenus rosmarus

The walrus is a massive Arctic marine mammal easily identified by its long ivory tusks, thick blubber layer, and distinctive whiskered snout.

Bos grunniens

The yak is a large, long-haired bovine adapted to the extreme cold and thin air of the high Himalayan plateau, long domesticated as a vital pack animal.