Endangered Marine Animals List
Endangered Dolphin species.
Endangered marine animals list. The MMPA gives special attention to depleted marine mammal species and populations. Similarly many marine species including marine mammals sea turtles and salmonids are also on the edge of extinction as climate change and overfishing become a major threat to their existence. This species is listed as critically endangered due.
Despite their supreme status they are endangered species with an estimated population of only 10000 to 250000. Some of the animals here are also listed among the endangered marine mammals while some are not mammals at all but are also endangered. Some of the most endangered species include the blue whale the North Atlantic Right Whale and the fin whale.
Threatened Endangered Species MarineBio Conservation Society. On land animals like Orangutan Black Rhinos Amur Leopard and Giant Pandas are some of the most critically endangered species in the world. Which marine animals are endangered.
As the largest animal on earth blue whales average 25 metres in length and 140000 kilograms in weight. The total population of this mammal is about 350 to 450. 2 petitioned species awaiting a 90-day finding 12 candidate species for ESA listing 0 proposed species for ESA listing.
Whale Shark Rhincodon typus. Sea turtles Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae families. The Mediterranean Monk Seal is critically endangered species of sea animal because of fishing and other human activities.
Marine Mammal Protection Act 1972. 51 rows Amur Leopard. NOAA Fisheries has jurisdiction over 165 endangered and threatened marine species 80 endangered.