What Endangered Species Live in Africa and Asia?
Animal lovers may wonder, what endangered species live in Africa and Asia. The answer is that several hundred species of endangered animals live on these two continents.
There are hundreds of endangered species living in Africa and Asia. The species are broken up into the following categories:
- Mammals
- Birds
- Reptiles
- Amphibians
- Fish
- Insects
- Worms
- Clams
- Crustaceans
- Snails
While both continents are home to endangered mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, Asia does not contain any endangered insects, worms, clams, crustaceans, or snails.
Endangered Animals in Africa
Endangered Mammals in Asia
Endangered mammals in Asia include:
- Agile gibbon
- Arabian gazelle
- Argali
- Asian elephant
- Asian golden cat
- Asian leopard cat
- Asiatic black bear
- Asiatic lion
- Babirusa
- Bornean orangutan
- Brown bear
- Bumblebee bat
- Cheetah
- Chinese river dolphin
- Clouded leopard
- Chole
- Dorcas gazelle
- Douc langur
- Dugong
- Formosan yellow-throated marten
- Giant panda
- Goitered gazelle
- Indus River dolphin
- Javan rhinoceros
- Leopard
- Malabar large-spotted civet
- Markhor
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Mongolian beaver
- Persian fallow deer
- Proboscis monkey
- Przewalksi’s wild horse
- Ryukyu rabbit
- Saiga antelope
- Sand cat
- Seladang
- Siamang
- Sika deer
- Snow leopard
- Spotted linsang
- Steller sea lion
- Striped hyena
- Tiger
- Visayan dee
- Wild yak
Endangered Birds in Asia
Asian birds that are on the endangered species list include:
- Egyptian vulture
- Eurasian peregrine falcon
- Japanese crested ibis
- Ostrich
- Palawan peacock pheasant
- Tristam’s woodpecker
- Whiskered pitta
Endangered Reptiles in Asia
Endangered reptiles that live in Asia are:
- Burmese peacock turtle
- Indian python
- Komodo Island monitor (also called the Komodo dragon)
- Lar Valley viper
- Mugger crocodile
- Philippine crocodile
- Siamese crocodile
- Three-keeled Asian turtle
Endangered Amphibians and Insects in Asia
Amphibians make up the smallest category of endangered species in Asia, including only the Chinese giant salamander and the Israel painted frog.
The insect category also contains only two species – the Corsican swallowtail and the Luzon peacock swallowtail.
Endangered Fish in Asia
The final category of endangered species in Asia is the fish category. Endangered fish species include:
- Ala balik
- Asian bony tongue
- Ayumodoki
- Jullien’s golden carp
- Nekogigi catfish
- Ornate eagle ray
- Speartooth shark
- Thailand giant catfish
Endangered Animals in Africa
While many of animals on the endangered species list live on both continents, not all of them do.
Endangered Mammals in Africa
Mammals that are endangered in Africa include:
- Addax
- African wild ass
- African wild dog
- Aye-aye
- Barbary serval
- Balck rhinoceros
- Cameroon clawless otter
- Cheetah
- Chimpanzee
- Clarke’s gazelle
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Dama gazelle
- Dorcas gazelle
- Dugong
- Ethopian wolf
- Fork-crowned lemur
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
- Leopard
- Malagasy giant jumping rat
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Mountain zebra
- Pygmy chimpanzee
- Pygmy mouse
- Lemur
- Red-eared nose-spotted monkey
- Rodrigues fruit bat
- Sand cat
- Slender-horned gazelle
- Striped hyena
- Western giant eland
- Western lowland gorilla
- White-throated guenon
- Zanzibar suni
Endangered Birds in Africa
Endangered birds that live in Africa are:
- Egyptian vulture
- Eurasian peregrine falcon
- Marungu sunbird
- Mauritius cuckoo-shrike
- Ostrich
- Pink pigeon
- Thyolo alethe
Other Endangered Animals in Africa
Amphibians, fish, insects, worms, clams, crustaceans, and snails all have only one species per category.
- The only amphibian on the list is the African viviparous toad
- The ornate eagle ray is the only fish
- The Corsican swallowtail is the only insect
- The Lion’s Hill velvet worm is the only worm
- The aspatharia mussel is the only clam
- The tree hole crab is the only crustacean
- The Afrogyrus rodriguezensis is the only snail
Finally, there are two endangered reptiles in Africa – the African slender-snouted crocodile and the geometric tortoise.
More details and complete lists of endangered species can be found at Earth's Endangered Creatures.