World Wildlife Red List · updated tracker

Some animals are running out of time, not chances.

The pangolin is the world's most trafficked mammal. It's one of thousands of species sliding toward extinction while almost no one is watching. Save Poor Animals funds the people watching — anti-poaching patrols, rescue vets, and habitat wardens, worldwide.

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Species spotlight #01

Sunda Pangolin

Critically Endangered

Population left ≈ 8 / 100 of historic range

Over 100,000 pangolins are trafficked every year for scales and meat — more than any other wild mammal on Earth.

The Red List, in six lives

These are not statistics. They're the ones still holding on.

Every gauge below shows roughly how much of a species' population — or historic range — remains. The shorter the bar, the closer the edge.

Sunda Pangolin

Critically Endangered

Poached for its keratin scales, wrongly prized in folk medicine. Numbers have fallen by over 80% in three generations.

Remaining~8%

Black Rhino

Critically Endangered

Fewer than 6,500 remain across Africa, down from around 100,000 in 1960 — driven almost entirely by horn poaching.

Remaining~6%

Vaquita Porpoise

Critically Endangered

The world's rarest marine mammal. Fewer than 10 are thought to survive in the Gulf of California, tangled in illegal gillnets.

Remaining<1%

Hawksbill Turtle

Critically Endangered

Hunted for its shell for centuries and now losing nesting beaches to development — populations have dropped 80% since 1950.

Remaining~10%

Sumatran Orangutan

Critically Endangered

Rainforest cleared for palm oil has cut their habitat by more than half in a generation. Under 14,000 remain in the wild.

Remaining~12%

Amur Leopard

Critically Endangered

The rarest big cat on Earth. Fewer than 130 survive in the wild, confined to a shrinking forest strip between Russia and China.

Remaining~2%

1M+

species are currently threatened with extinction worldwide, according to the UN's biodiversity assessments.

frontline species this fund currently supports — from pangolins in Southeast Asia to vaquita in Mexico.

£1

is genuinely enough to start. Small, repeated gifts fund rangers and vets far better than rare, large ones.

Why we exist

Big charities cover the famous animals. We cover the ones nobody's watching.

Save Poor Animals started as a single Facebook page sharing rescue stories nobody else was posting. It's grown into a small, direct-action fund that channels donations — even £1 at a time — straight to rangers, sanctuary vets, and local rescue teams working with the world's most overlooked endangered species.

We don't take a cut for overhead campaigns or galas. Every tier above maps to a real, specific cost a field team has told us they need — because we'd rather be small and honest than big and vague.

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Some animals are running out of time, not chances.

These are not statistics. They're the ones still holding on.

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Big charities cover the famous animals. We cover the ones nobody's watching.

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