Endangered species in Thailand
Asian Elephant
type of animals: mammal
natural habitat: land-grasslands, tropical evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and dry thorn forests
endangered by: reduction of natural habitat, poached by human.
Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia. They live in a variety of forests, mostly in the tropical ones. IUCN has declared that they're endangered since 1986 because of the degradation and human's invasion of their habitat. They're also illegally hunted for various products such as ivory,meat and skin.
Clouded Leopard
type of animals: mammal
natural habitat: mixed-evergreen forests, dry tropical forest and some in Himalayas
endangered by: reduction of natural habitat and hunted for skin, bones and teeth.
Clouded leopards are cats found found from the Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into China. They primarily live in wide and open forest, bot some can be found in Himalayas. They are endangered because of the increasing deforestation and poached for valuables like their skin and teeth.
Clouded leopards are cats found found from the Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into China. They primarily live in wide and open forest, bot some can be found in Himalayas. They are endangered because of the increasing deforestation and poached for valuables like their skin and teeth.
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