Many species of bats spread across the globe are in danger of extinction. The Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identifies more than 200 species as endangered, vulnerable or "near threatened".
Bulmer's fruit bat, for example, is critically endangered. We can only find it high in the mountains in a cave in Papua New Guinea. There may be approximately one hundred individuals left.
Overall, the most threatened species in 2021 represent up to 41,415 species, according to the IUCN . Among them are the orangutans, the Asian elephant, the Java rhinoceros, the mountain gorilla, the Iberian lynx, the pangolin, the white rhinoceros, the Sumatran tiger, the common chimpanzee, the snow leopard, the axolotl. , the bearded vulture, the brown bear, the black stork or the leatherback turtles.
