For its beautiful and unique color, people can pay up to $ 500 for a copy of blue tarantula (Poecilotheria metallica) in the US. But the coloring of this spider, in a critical state of conservation, intrigue

Polar Bear. It is perhaps the greatest icon of the effects of climate change. Its habitat has been seriously threatened for several decades by the melting of the Arctic poles, which causes the isolation

Magellanic Penguin. The widespread rise in temperatures on the planet is also responsible for the critical situation of this class of penguins native to southern Argentina. The fish that inhabit the frozen

Panda. Less than 2,500 specimens in natural habitat. This is the disheartening figure that sums up the present and the future of the panda. This species, originally from southwest China, is a symbol of

Jaguar. There are two main reasons that are making the jaguar disappear, and both are motivated by the action of the human being. First of all, jaguars are hunted for their skin, a precious trophy for

Numerous are the species that are endangered by the direct or indirect action of the human being. Do you want to know what these species are? let's start. Mexican gray wolf. The situation of this wolf

Caribbean monk seal. Extinct in 1952. Of the three species of monk seals that man came to know, there are only two left: the Mediterranean and the Hawaiian. The Caribbean disappeared in the middle of the

Baiji. Extinto en 2008. El caso del baiji o delfín chino de río es el mejor ejemplo de como una reacción tardía no es suficiente. Overfishing and the construction of dams decimated the population of this

Bali tiger. Extinct in 1937. This species of feline was originally from the island of Bali. It had a very limited territory to survive that was threatened with human expansion. The fear, the hunting and

Cape Lion or black lion . Extinct in 1860. This type of lion, who lived in South Africa, was discovered by the Boers - Dutch colonists - and they are usually attributed responsibility for their disappearance,

Traveling pigeon. Extinct in 1914. It has been more than a century since this bird disappeared, the most abundant in North America in its day. Its fat, meat and plumage were very demanded, creating the

Bucardo. Extinct in 2000. One of the autochthonous goat classes of Spain disappeared at the end of the last century. Originally from the Pyrenees and extended by Euskadi, Navarra, Huesca, Lleida and Girona,

Quagga. Its main characteristic, unlike the zebras that still exist today, was its reddish coat on the hindquarters and its black and white stripes on the forequarters, head and neck. The Dutch settlers

Tilacino. Extinct in 1930. Also called the marsupial wolf, Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger, thylacine was a challenge for biology. It was a species native to all of Australia and New Guinea, although

Bubal Hartebeest. Extinct in 1925. Originally from North Africa and the Middle East, the Hartebeest bubal was a type of alcelafo or búbalo whose population was drastically reduced with the arrival of the

Golden Frog. Extinct in 1989. Although researchers have not thrown the towel with this species of amphibian, the truth is that it was declared extinct almost three decades ago. Global warming is responsible