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If an animal is endangered, what does that mean? …..……………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Can you think of the word for if there are none left at all?

E ……………………….

Some animals died out a long time ago, can you find them in the word

search below?

Dinosaur Dodo Mammoth Sabre—toothed cat

There is a scale to tell us how endangered animals are.

It is called the IUCN red list and it is drawn below.

Can you colour in each box with the colour that is written next to it

Near

Threatened

Critically

Endangered

Vulnerable

Endangered

Extinct

Least

Concern

Extinct in the

Wild

Colour red

Colour orange

Colour yellow

Colour green

Worst

Best

At Knowsley Safari—we have lots of animals; some are not doing well

in the wild and some are doing okay.

Can you put a tick through the ones that are okay (least concern)

Can you put a cross through the ones that aren’t doing very well

(extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or

near threatened) You might need to look some up

There are two main reasons for why animals are endangered:-

Habitat loss and poaching

Poaching is when an animal is killed for its body parts

Bush Dogs Bactrian

Camels

Pere David’s

Deer

Blackbuck

Amur

Tigers

European

Bison

Eld’s Deer Lechwe

White

Rhinos

Lowland

Tapirs

Barasingha Bongo

Iberian

Wolves

African

Lions

At Knowsley Safari—we have lots of animals that are not doing so

well, (extinct in the wild, endangered, vulnerable or near threatened)

- some of them you have seen on the previous page

We have written some of them in the table below

Can you think of any others? Add them to the table

Unfortunately some animals are killed for their body parts

Can you draw a line from the name of the animal to the body part they

are poached / used for? You may have to look some of them up

Fins

Sea turtles

Sharks

Eggs and shells

Amur Leopards

Fur

Lemurs

Meat

Antelope

Horns

Pangolins

Scales

Meat, hands and feet

Gorillas

Coral

Used for jewellery and decorations

Rays

Gills

Narwhals Tusks

Unfortunately some animals are killed for their body parts

Below are some photos of animals at our Safari; can you draw an

arrow to label the body part they are poached for—then write it into

the box

Elephants are poached for

their ……………………..

Rhinos are poached for their

……………………..

Tigers are poached for their

………… and …………..

Snakes and

lizards are

poached for

their

………………….