Top 10 Most Endangered Wild Animals Names in India 2022
India used to be the habitat for several species of wildlife. Amongst the most well-known of them were the Asiatic Lion, The Royal Bengal Tigers, The Asiatic Cheetah, and several other birds. However, owing to human activities and increased poaching and killing of animals by the poachers for their horns, or their skin or even their teeth or hooves, has to lead to lowering their numbers. Sometimes many species move out of their natural habitat for the need of food and also due to gradual contamination of the lands with the pollution that they are habituated to live in. It can also happen when there are floods or there are other natural calamities or the slow increase of the saltiness of the water.
There can be several factors which are natural and often affect a kind of a species largely. Nowadays there are several factories and housing that has increased. The factories are mainly polluting the river waters which have lead to killing various types of aquatic fishes or other animals. These have also destroyed the natural riverside habitats for several varieties of frogs and other reptiles.
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Below are the lists of the top 15 animals that are listed as endangered species in the Indian subcontinent.
1. The Royal Bengal Tiger:
The royal Bengal tigers which are popularly found in the state of Bengal at the saltwater reserve are amongst the most well-known of the endangered species. There are only a few hundred of these remaining. Due to excessive population in the saltwater estuary regions and increased poaching activities and also due to the increase in the level of waters has lead for the tigers to leave the jungle areas and often getting into villages nearby and hence getting killed or getting into hands of animal traders. Many of these are getting killed for their teeth or skin. Even though the government has increased the laws relating to regulations of these poaching activities, even then these only have improved their conditions slightly because their numbers are still decreasing.