The World's 6 Most Endangered Animal Habitats

By Rachel Cernansky, Planet Green

The reasons that animals get to be on the endangered list are many and complex, but habitat and lack of safe refuge have a lot to do with it.

The Gulf of Mexico, for example, has been too cold lately for the manatees who usually live there, and the mammals have instead been turning up in the warm waters of power plant discharge canals.

More than 300 manatees—mammals whose immune systems are weakened in the cold—swam into the discharge of Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station in Florida last week, the BBC reports.

Central Africa

Central Africa’s mountain gorillas might win for the world’s most dangerous habitat, and between habitat destruction and ongoing conflict in the region, their population has been brought to the brink of extinction, with no place to go for refuge. Add the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas living in the mountainous region spanning Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the list of reasons to stop the conflict in that region (which means taking a little responsibility for the role our gadgets play in perpetuating it).

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LMj S.

9:06PM PDT on Nov 1, 2012

Very sad, thank you.

November 1
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9:05PM PDT on Nov 1, 2012

Eric L.

3:28PM PDT on Jul 24, 2012

Thanks for sharing. Now to get people to protect these habitats.

July 24
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Benoit W.

1:23PM PDT on Jul 22, 2012

Central Africa is not only mined by conflic but also by multinationnals interrest by the wood and palm oil industry...This is a lot for the flore and the faune of Africa's forest

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Sheri S.

1:36PM PDT on Jul 21, 2012

The loss of all these habitats is due to man's greed and desire to own/take over/pave all the areas of these and other animals. Soon the only animals left will be on 2 feet.

July 21
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Valentina R.

12:49AM PDT on Jun 5, 2012

Such beautiful places... good job mankind!

June 5
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Debbie C.

7:32AM PDT on Apr 4, 2012

There has to be something we can do!!!
I have stopped buying anything with Palm Oil in it in protest to help save some land in the Forests of Indonesia for the Orangutans.
I'm not sure what to do about the Gulf of Aden, or the Great Barrier Reef, or the Gulf of Mexico, or Central Africa’s Mountain Gorillas, or Madagascar!!

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D D.

1:50PM PST on Dec 27, 2011

Oh, this is very sad news.......

December 27
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Andrea A.

9:58PM PDT on Sep 24, 2011

*only recycling...

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9:56PM PDT on Sep 24, 2011

All of you are saying how sad it is that these things are endangered, but the question that comes to my mind is..what are YOU going to do about it? it shouldnt only b recyling either, i guess it could b, but in order for recycling to work people have to buy recycled things. If you really care about these wonderful animals and the organisms and the environments they live with, you'll do your research and do something about it.