The longcomb sawfish’s long, toothy rostrum puts this ray at higher risk of entanglement in fishing nets throughout its range.

The goliath grouper’s large size and fearlessness around humans makes this species a target for fishers.

Zebra sharks are easily caught in large numbers for fish markets, and are losing even more of their population to habitat destruction.

Green sea turtles depend on the beach for nesting. Habitat destruction leaves this species vulnerable to further decline.

Whale sharks have historically been overfished, and are also vulnerable to plastic pollution.

The hammerhead shark only reproduces every other year which makes it more difficult for them to keep up with the numbers taken by fisheries and finning.

Sand tiger sharks can’t keep up with fishing pressures due to their slow reproduction rate.

Decline of African penguins started when their eggs and guano were being harvested by locals to use as food and fertilizer, causing population decline and habitat destruction.

The Cook Inlet population of beluga whales have been historically over harvested, and live in a location that isolates them geographically as well as genetically from other populations.

Southern sea otters face multiple threats including habitat degradation from loss of kelp in their range as well as climate change causing population declines.

With a small population size only found in a small area of the world, Banggai cardinalfish are easily over collected and have a hard time repopulating.

Modern locks, dams, reservoirs and other forms of hydropower give lake sturgeons less available habitat and lower water quality conditions.

The golden poison dart is only found in very few areas of Colombia; all of which are shrinking due to logging, mining and pollution from pesticides.