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Instant Wild: Exploring endangered animals & conservation

Once you’ve had fun tagging, have a go at the following activities:

1. Draw lines below to match the words with their meanings:

2. Pick your favourite project on Instant Wild and start tagging!

3. For each animal you spot, click the i next to its picture to find out more about it.

Help ZSL’s scientists learn about and protect animals all

around the world with our Instant Wild app:

www.instantwild.zsl.org

Explore images live-streamed from habitats all around the

world and help scientists studying the animals that live

there by tagging the animals you spot!

Endangered

Extinct

Conservation

No more of the animal left in the wild

To protect wild animals and their habitats so

they don’t go extinct

Not many of the animal left in the wild

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4. Write down the three most endangered species you find and research

what is causing them to be endangered:

Species IUCN Red List Status Main reason it’s endangered

Above the picture it tells you the

‘IUCN Red List Status’ of the species

– this is how endangered it is.

Extinct Extinct in

the Wild

Critically

Endangered Endangered Vulnerable

Near

Threatened

Least

Concern

Most

endangered

Least

endangered

IUCN Red List Statuses

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5. For each of the reasons above, write down one thing people could do to help these

animals:

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6. What could you do at home to help local wildlife? Write down some ideas below:

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