Endangered Marine Animals List
Its population has been seen to decline over 80 in the last century due to heavy trafficking for its meat and shells.
Endangered marine animals list. The most endangered ocean animal according to most marine biologists is the sea turtle or Hawksbill Turtle. As the largest animal on earth blue whales average 25 metres in length and 140000 kilograms in weight. Whale Shark Rhincodon typus.
Vaquita is the worlds smallest cetacean and the most endangered out of the 128 marine animals. While there are thousands of species living in the ocean that are currently threatened this list includes only a few of the easily understood as studies have long shown that humans are more likely to take conservation actions to help large charismatic species than smaller stranger ones. The truth is that the populations of many species are decreasing at an unsustainable rate and the number of species listed as Endangered from marine life.
Most seals and sea lions live in the cool water of temperate seas or the frigid water of polar regions. Fairy shrimp San Diego. The so-called Monk seals are the only seals that live in the tropics.
Open ocean lagoons and mangrove swamps but are most commonly found in tropical coral reefs. The Hectors dolphin is the rarest marine dolphin in the world. The Mediterranean Monk Seal is critically endangered species of sea animal because of fishing and other human activities.
Though many activists are trying to make a difference most of their work is unfortunately going in vain. It is found in East Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Listed in 2006 they were the only coral species under protection until 2014 when 20 other coral species were listed as threatened for a total of 22 species.
The most endangered marine mammals swimming in the worlds ocean. USA law that outlawed the use of endangered marine mammal species by humans for food fur and other commercial uses. Thunnus and Katsuwonus species.