Endangered Wildlife

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. She specialises in the natural world, religion and mythology but is always looking for new challenges. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat. She enjoys reading, walking the Moors, playing tennis and dreaming of winning Wimbledon.

1: Wildlife in Danger
2: Mammals


1: Mammals in danger
2: Tiger
3: Giant panda
4: Wild Bactrian camel
5: Black rhinoceros
6: Northern hairy-nosed wombat
7: Aye-aye
8: Orang-utan
9: Polar bear
10: Iberian lynx
11: Amur leopard
12: Western lowland gorilla
13: Baird's tapir


3: Amphibians


1: Amphibians in danger
2: Chinese giant salamander
3: Mountain chicken
4: Mexican axolotl
5: Mallorcan midwife toad
6: Montseny brook newt
7: Southern Corroboree frog
8: Western leopard toad
9: Lemur leaf frog
10: Sagalla caecilian
11: Malagasy rainbow frog
12: Kihansi spray toad
13: Quito rocket frog


4: Birds


1: Birds in danger
2: Giant ibis
3: California condor
4: Kakapo
5: Hyacinth macaw
6: Philippine eagle
7: Siberian crane
8: Waved albatross
9: Christmas Island frigatebird
10: Shoebill
11: Kagu
12: Yellow-breasted bunting
13: Forest owlet


5: Insects and invertebrates


1: Insects and invertebrates in danger
2: Lord Howe Island stick insect
3: Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly
4: Ladybird spider
5: Dracula ant
6: Seychelles giant millipede
7: Franklin's bumblebee
8: Basking malachite
9: Peacock tarantula
10: Epirus dancing grasshopper
11: Cederberg cave katydid
12: Sinai baton blue
13: American burying beetle


6: Ocean life


1: Ocean life in danger
2: Vaquita
3: Commercial top shell
4: Blue whale
5: Leatherback turtle
6: Southern bluefin tuna
7: Great hammerhead shark
8: Mediterranean monk seal
9: Knysna seahorse
10: Largetooth sawfish
11: Sea otter
12: European eel
13: West Indian manatee


7: Reptiles


1: Reptiles in danger
2: Green turtle
3: Saint Lucia racer
4: Gharial
5: Round Island keel-scaled boa
6: Galápagos giant tortoise
7: Fiji crested iguana
8: Komodo dragon
9: Orinoco crocodile
10: Minute leaf chameleon
11: Sand lizard
12: Painted terrapin
13: Galápagos pink land iguana


8: Glossary
9: Index