Environments and People - Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia - page 51

Figure 2-20
I discovered this poor creature in a small park/zoo in
Banjarmasin, Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is an illegally-
caged proboscis monkey , known for its large nose.
Given the rapid rate of deforestation in this region, the
proboscis monkey is a threatened species. In another
tiny cage was a baby orangutan that never stopped
crying. Rescue efforts cannot keep up with the illegal
poaching of wild animals. Photograph courtesy of
B. A. Weightman.

Table 2-2 2004 IUCNRed List of Threatened, Endangered, and Vulnerable
Animal Species in East, South, and Southeast Asia (If you don't recognize some of these animals, look
them up on the Internet, where you will find a description and often a photograph)

Number of Percent Percent Percent Percent

Threatened Threat- Threat- Endan- V ulner-

gered Species on ened ened able

Country Examples 2000 Examples 2000 2000 Red List 1996

Asian Elephant Black bear 18 Bangladesh 10 24 12 109

Tiger Clouded leopard

Ganges Eurasian otter

dolphin

Assamese

*Pygmy dog 15 10 Bhutan 23 20 99

Snow leopard macaque

Red panda Sloth bear

Golden monkey Sikkim rat

Brunei 6 157 8 Orangutan 5 Proboscis 8

Banteng monkey

Otter civet Marbled cat

Dugong

Malayan *Javan rhino- 27 Burma 13 15 12 251

(Myanmar) ceros porcupine

Elephant Eld' s deer

Blue whale Sperm whale

Tiger 9 Cambodia 22 18 117 Golden cat 20

Asian elephant Malay tapir

*Sumatran Pygmy loris

rhinoceros

Wild yak

*Gansu shrew 48 34 China 20 ? 394

Giant panda Siberian musk

*Przewalski' s deer

horse Chinese

*Wild Bactrian mountain cat

camel Stump-tail

macaque
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