Endangered species in mountain bongo at risk of extinction

Mountain Bongo

In 1895, only 20 white rhinos were left in South Africa owing to massive poaching. Today, South Africa is home to 20,000 rhinos, the largest concentration of this endangered species in the world. It is proof that targeted conservation can bear positive results. The world’s leading biologists and ecologists have estimated that one in five animal species on earth now faces extinction with the figures expected to rise to 50 per cent by the end of the century.

According to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016, the world’s leading, science-based look at the health of our planet, we are on course to experience a 67 per cent decline by 2020 in global populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles as compared to 1970 numbers.