Doomed: the songstress of the deep

The numbers of beluga, the white whales of Alaska, have halved in 13 years.

1,000m

The depth of which belugas are capable of diving, though they spend the summer in shallow bays and estuaries and the winter under pack ice.

Beluga whales have lived for around 30 years in the wild.

Belugas are the only whales that can bend their neck

There are five main populations:

Bering

Chukchi

Okhotsk Seas

High Artic

west Greenland

Hudson Bay

James Bay

Gulf of St Lawrence

Watch this video, change your ways!!!

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcnE0GbfiW8

After surviving 20m yrs, they are driven to extinction!

After surviving 20m years, China's goddess of the river are driven to extinction!!

For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze.

A recent expedition failed to spot a single Lipotes vexillifer, and now conservationists fear the almost-blind, long-beaked animal is gone for good, the first big aquatic mammal to become extinct due to human activity. When it was listed as one of the most endangered species in the world in 1986, there were still 400 white-fin dolphins alive, but the population dropped alarmingly to fewer than 150 over the past decade. A survey in 1997 listed just 13 sightings, with the last confirmed sighting in 2004. The final baiji in captivity, Qi Qi, died in 2002.

10 Years to live!

10 Years to live!!! Orang-utan faces extinction in the wild!!

The great ape's is rapidly being destroyed- by the rush to produce an environmentally friendly fuel.

(Not in the five categoies but still of interst)

At least 1,000 orang-utans have been killed in forest fires of Indonesia.
The orangutan are so endangered that experts believe they will become extinct in the next 10 years. Some 50,000 of them still survive but it is believed that 5,000 will go every year for the next 10 years.

Originally 300,000 apes lived in South-East Asia. But now they exist only in the pockets of Borneo and and Sumatra. In the last 20 years, 80 percent of their habitat has been desrtoyed, and only abou 2 percent of whta remains is protected in reserves.

Source: Independant news paper 17 December 2006

What is the S.T.E.A?

The S.T.E.A is an organisation that stands for "Save The Endangered Animals". My name is Julieta Esteves and I am doing my best to save these animals that are becoming extinct. The five animals I am focusing are Pandas, Tigers, Dolphins, Elephants, Rhinos. What I am doing is giving incentives to people, for them to adopt an animal with the WWF.
You can visit my website here.
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Then email me your thoughts on stea.jbe@gmail.com.