It is ARKive's aim to compile audio-visual records, where media exists, for the 15,000-plus animals, plants and fungi currently threatened with extinction, according to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
We are always open to suggestions of endangered species that should be included in ARKive. If you have media, or know of its existence, for an endangered species that we have not yet covered, or can add to the collections already in ARKive, then please do let us know.
The ARKive media research team are currently searching for media for the following species:
| Acerodon jubatus | Golden-capped fruit bat |
| Ammotragus lervia | Barbary sheep |
| Arctocebus aureus | Golden potto |
| Arctocephalus galapagoensis | Galapagos fur seal |
| Capricornis sumatraensis | Serow |
| Cephalophus leucogaster | White-bellied duiker |
| Cephalophus nigrifrons | Black-fronted duiker |
| Cephalophus ogilbyi | Ogilby's duiker |
| Chaerephon aloysiisabaudiae | Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat |
| Chiropotes satanus | Bearded saki |
| Dendrolagus dorianus | Doria's tree kangaroo |
| Eliomys quercinus | Garden dormouse |
| Eulemur rubriventer | Red-bellied lemur |
| Galago alleni | Allen's bushbaby |
| Galidia elegans | Malagasy ring-tailed mongoose |
| Glauconycteris beatrix | Beatrix's bat |
| Kobus ellipsiprymnus | Waterbuck |
| Neoromicia brunneus | Dark-brown serotine |
| Neotragus batesii | Bate's pygmy antelope |
| Nycteris intermedia | Intermediate slit-faced bat |
| Nycticebus pygmaeus | Pygmy loris |
| Panthera pardus panthera | North African leopard |
| Panthera pardus saxicolor | North Persian leopard |
| Petrogale penicillata | Brush-tailed rock wallaby |
| Raphicerus melanotis | Cape grysbok |
| Redunca arundinum | Southern reedbuck |
| Rhinolophus capensis | Cape horseshoe bat |
| Saccolaimus peli | Pel's pouched bat |
| Scotonycteris zenkeri | Zenker's fruit bat |
| Spermophilus citellus | European souslik |
| Stenella attenuata | Bridled dolphin |
| Stenella frontalis | Atlantic spotted dolphin |
| Sus barbatus ahoenobarbus | Palawan bearded pig |
| Tragelaphus oryx | Common eland |
| Amaurornis olivieri | Sakalava rail |
| Anas wyvilliana | Hawaiian duck |
| Aphelocoma coerulescens woodhouseii | Western scrub jay |
| Aratinga guarouba | Golden conure |
| Brachypteracias squamiger | Scaly ground-roller |
| Bycanistes cylindricus | Brown-cheeked hornbill |
| Cacatua alba | Umbrella cockatoo |
| Circaetus fasciolatus | Southern banded snake-eagle |
| Crocias langbianis | Grey-crowned crocias |
| Megapodius laperouse | Micronesian megapode |
| Nectarinia neergardi | Neergaard's sunbird |
| Oceanites gracilis galapagoensis | Elliot's storm petrel |
| Pardalotus quadragintus | Forty-spotted pardalote |
| Phalacrocorax capensis | Cape cormorant |
| Prionops poliolophus | Great-crested helmet-shrike |
| Pterodroma solandri | Providence petrel |
| Sterna balaenarum | Damara tern |
| Syphoetides indica | Lesser florican |
| Treron capellei | Large green-pigeon |
| Vini ultramarina | Ultramarine lorikeet |
| Zoothera oberlaenderi | Forest ground-thrush |
| Zoothera tanganjicae | Kivu ground-thrush |
| Amyda cartilaginea | Southeast Asian soft terrapin |
| Geochelone denticulata | South American yellow-footed tortoise |
| Hardella thurjii | Crowned river turtle |
| Hieremys annandalii | Yellow-headed temple turtle |
| Natator depressus | Flatback turtle |
| Phelsuma antanosy | Day gecko |
| Siebenrockiella leytensis | Philippine pond turtle |
| Afrixalus orophilus | Two-lined leaf-gluing frog |
| Arthroleptis nikeae | Nike's squeaker |
| Barbourula busuangensis | Philippine flat-headed frog |
| Bufo canorus | Yosemite toad |
| Eleutherodactylus iberia | Robber frog |
| Eleutherodactylus orientalis | Robber frog |
| Hyperolius alticola | Albertine rift reed frog |
| Hyperolius castaneus | Montane reed frog |
| Hyperolius frontalis | White-snouted reed frog |
| Leptopelis kivuensis | Kivu tree frog |
| Leptopelis zebra | Forest tree frog |
| Phrynobatrachus versicolor | Western rift puddle frog |
| Pychadena chrysogaster | Golden bellied rocket frog |
| Rana muscosa | Mountain yellow-legged frog |
| Arapaima gigas | Arapaima |
| Balistes vetula | Queen triggerfish |
| Heptranchias perlo | One-finned shark |
| Hippocampus histrix | Spiny seahorse |
| Hippocampus ramulosus | Maned seahorse |
| Leptocharias smithii | Barbeled houndshark |
| Plectropomus laevis | Blacksaddled coral grouper |
| Margaritifera margaritifera | Freshwater pearl mussel |
| Adansonia suarezensis | Baobab |
| Allanblackia gabonensis | |
| Ancistrocladus letestui | |
| Aucoumea klaineana | |
| Autranella congolensis | |
| Balthasaria schliebenii | |
| Baphia leptostemma leptostemma | |
| Barombia gracillima | |
| Brachycereus nesioticus | Lava cactus |
| Brazzeia longipedicellata | |
| Brillantaisia lancifolia | |
| Bulbophyllum pandanetorum | |
| Calochone acuminata | |
| Calpocalyx brevifolius | |
| Calpocalyx heitzii | |
| Calpocalyx klainei | |
| Calpocalyx letestui | |
| Calpocalyx ngouiensis | |
| Calycosiphonia macrochlamys | |
| Cassia aubrevillei | |
| Cassipourea acuminata | |
| Chamaecyparis lawsoniana | Lawson's cypress |
| Cleistopholis staudtii | |
| Clerodendrum anomalum | |
| Cola duparquetiana | |
| Cola letestui | |
| Cola lizae | |
| Conceveiba macrostachys | |
| Crotonogyne manniana | |
| Crotonogyne zenkeri | |
| Cypripedium formosanum | Slipper orchid |
| Dacryodes igaganga | |
| Dactyladenia laevis | |
| Daniellia klainei | |
| Deinbollia maxima | |
| Deinbollia rambaensis | |
| Delpydora macrophylla | |
| Dialium bipindense | |
| Dialium lopense | |
| Didelotia unifoliolata | |
| Drypetes laciniata | |
| Drypetes magnistipula | |
| Drypetes preussii | |
| Duguetia barteri | |
| Eribroma oblonga | Yellow sterculia |
| Eriocoelum oblongum | |
| Garcinia kola | |
| Gilbertiodendron klainei | |
| Gluema ivorensis | |
| Gossweilerodendron balsamiferum | |
| Gossweilerodendron joveri | |
| Hallea ledermannii | |
| Hallea stipulosa | |
| Hemandradenia mannii | |
| Heritiera utilis | |
| Homalium ogoouense | |
| Homalium patoklaense | |
| Hugonia micans | |
| Isolona zenkeri | |
| Jollydora pierrei | |
| Lecomtedoxa nogo | |
| Lophira alata | Azobe |
| Magnistipula cuneatifolia | |
| Marantochloa mildbraedii | |
| Medicago arborea | Tree medick |
| Mikaniopsis vitalba | |
| Milicia excelsa | |
| Millettia laurentii | |
| Momordica enneaphylla | |
| Monopetalanthus durandii | |
| Monopetalanthus heitzii | |
| Napoleonaea egertonii | |
| Nauclea diderrichii | |
| Neostenanthera robsonii | |
| Nesogordonia papaverifera | |
| Nothospondias staudtii | |
| Ocotea gabonensis | |
| Opuntia helleri | Prickly pear |
| Oricia lecomteana | |
| Ormocarpum klainei | |
| Pandanus parvicentralis | |
| Pandanus teuszii | |
| Pararistolochia ceropegioides | |
| Pauridiantha venusta | |
| Pellegriniodendron diphyllum | |
| Piptostigma calophyllum | |
| Piptostigma oyemense | |
| Placodiscus caudatus | |
| Placodiscus opacus | |
| Plagiosiphon gabonensis | |
| Polystachya victoriae | |
| Pouteria altissima | |
| Pseudosabicea batesii | |
| Pterygota bequaertii | |
| Raphia regalis | |
| Rhaphidophora pusilla | |
| Rhaptopetalum belingense | |
| Rhaptopetalum sindarense | |
| Rhodognaphalon breviscupe | |
| Salacia lehmbachii manus-lacertae | |
| Salacia mamba | |
| Salvia sprucei | |
| Sarcophrynium villosum | |
| Strychnos staudtii | |
| Swartzia fistuloides | |
| Tapinanthus preussii | |
| Tapura arachnoidea | |
| Tapura carinata | |
| Tapura letestui | |
| Tapura neglecta | |
| Testulea gabonensis | |
| Tillandsia harrisii | Harris' tillandsia |
| Tillandsia kautskyi | Kautsky's tillandsia |
| Tillandsia sucrei | Sucre tillandsia |
| Tiquilia nesiotica | |
| Tricalysia atherura | |
| Tricalysia concolor | |
| Tricalysia obstetrix | |
| Uvariodendron giganteum | |
| Uvariopsis vanderystii | |
| Warneckea memecyloides | |
| Warneckea wildeana | |
| Xanthocercis rabiensis | |
The following is a list of ARKive's most wanted species. Please let us know if you may be able to help us to locate any images for these species.
| Allactaga firouzi | Iranian jerboa |
| Aonyx congicus | Clawless otter |
| Aproteles bulmerae | Bulmer's fruit bat |
| Bos sauveli | Grey ox |
| Catopuma badia | Bornean bay cat |
| Cercocebus galeritus | Tana river mangabey |
| Cercopithecus hamlyni kahuziensis | Kahuzi owl-faced monkey |
| Cercopithecus sclateri | Sclater's guenon |
| Chaerephon gallagheri | Gallagher's free-tailed bat |
| Chinchilla brevicaudata | Short-tailed chinchilla |
| Cloeotis percivali | Short-eared trident bat |
| Crocidura maurisca | Dark shrew |
| Dendromus kahuziensis | Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse |
| Dromiciops gliroides | Monito del Monte |
| Dryomys sichuanensis | Chinese dormouse |
| Epixerus wilsoni | Baifran palm squirrel |
| Euchoreutes naso | Long-eared jerboa |
| Euroscaptor parvidens | Small-toothed mole |
| Gracilinanus aceramarcae | Aceramarca gracile mouse opossum |
| Hipposideros cervinus | Fawn roundleaf bat |
| Isolobodon portoricensis | Puerto Rican hutia |
| Kerivoula argentata | Damara woolly bat |
| Leontopithecus caissara | Black-faced lion tamarin |
| Marmosops handleyi | Handley's slender mouse opossum |
| Mazama chunyi | Dwarf brocket deer |
| Micropotamogale lamottei | Nimba otter-shrew |
| Murina grisea | Peter's tube-nosed bat |
| Myomimus setzeri | Setzer's mouse-tailed dormouse |
| Myosciurus pumilio | African pygmy squirrel |
| Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis | Yangtze finless porpoise |
| Nomascus nasutus | Eastern black-crested gibbon |
| Notoryctes caurinus | Northern marsupial mole |
| Oreonax flavicauda | Yellow-tailed woolly monkey |
| Paracoelops megalotis | Vietnam leaf-nosed bat |
| Pharotis imogene | New Guinea big-eared bat |
| Phocoena sinus | Vaquita |
| Podogymnura aureospinula | Dinagat moonrat |
| Pontoporia blainvillei | Franciscana |
| Presbytis potenziani | Long-tailed langur |
| Procapra przewalskii | Przewalski's gazelle |
| Procolobus rufomitratus | Tana river red colobus |
| Pteropus aldabrensis | Aldabra flying fox |
| Rhinolophus imaizumii | Imaizumi's horseshoe bat |
| Rhinolophus silvestris | Forest horseshoe bat |
| Rhinopithecus avunculus | Tonkin snub-nosed monkey |
| Selevinia betpakdalaensis | Desert dormouse |
| Sicista armenica | Armenian birch mouse |
| Simias concolor | Pig-tailed langur |
| Solenodon cubanus | Cuban solenodon |
| Soriculus salenskii | Salenski's shrew |
| Sousa teuszii | Atlantic humpbacked dolphin |
| Talpa streeti | Persian mole |
| Tokudaia muenninki | Muennink's spiny rat |
| Tomopeas ravus | Blunt-eared bat |
| Triaenops furculus | Trouessart's trident bat |
| Tylomys bullaris | Chiapan climbing-rat |
| Tylomys tumbalensis | Tumbala climbing-rat |
| Typhlomys chapensis | Chapa pygmy dormouse |
| Uropsilus investigator | Inquisitive shrew-mole |
| Uropsilus soricipes | Chinese shrew-mole |
| Zenkerella insignis | Flightless scaly-tailed squirrel |
| Aburria aburri | Wattled guan |
| Agelastes meleagrides | White-breasted guineafowl |
| Aphrastura masafuerae | Masafuera rayadito |
| Arborophila davidi | Orange-necked partridge |
| Batis minima | Gabon batis |
| Bradypterus grandis | Dja river warbler |
| Campephilus imperialis | Imperial woodpecker |
| Campephilus principalis | Ivory-billed woodpecker |
| Corvus hawaiiensis | Hawaiian crow |
| Crax mitu | Alagoas curassow |
| Cyanoramphus malherbi | Malherbe's parakeet |
| Eriocnemis nigrivestis | Black-breasted puffleg |
| Eutrichomyias rowleyi | Caerulean paradise-flycatcher |
| Gallicolumba salamonis | Thick-billed ground dove |
| Gallirallus calayanensis | Calayan rail |
| Geopsittacus occidentalis | Night parrot |
| Gorsachius goisagi | Japanese night-heron |
| Heteromirafra archeri | Archer's lark |
| Heteromirafra ruddi | Rudd's lark |
| Indicator pumilio | Dwarf honeyguide |
| Jubula lettii | Maned owl |
| Leptosittaca branickii | Golden-plumed parakeet |
| Loddigesia mirabilis | Marvellous spatuletail |
| Loxops caeruleirostris | Akeke'e |
| Malaconotus lagdeni | Lagden's bush-shrike |
| Myadestes palmeri | Puaiohi |
| Nesillas aldabrana | Aldabra warbler |
| Numenius borealis | Eskimo curlew |
| Oreomystis bairdi | Akikiki |
| Oriolus isabellae | Isabela oriole |
| Oriolus mellianus | Silver oriole |
| Penelopina nigra | Highland guan |
| Pitta baudii | Blue-headed pitta |
| Pomarea iphis | Iphis monarch |
| Procellaria conspicillata | Spectacled petrel |
| Progne murphyi | Peruvian martin |
| Pterodroma sandwichensis | Hawaiian petrel |
| Rallus madagascariensis | Madagascar rail |
| Sapheopipo noguchii | Okinawa woodpecker |
| Sarothrura ayresi | White-winged crake |
| Spizaetus floris | Flores hawk-eagle |
| Todiramphus gambieri | Tuamotu kingfisher |
| Troglodytes monticola | Santa Marta wren |
| Vermivora bachmanii | Bachman's warbler |
| Xenicus longipes | Bush wren |
| Xenoglaux loweryi | Long-whiskered owlet |
| Anniella geronimensis | Baja California legless lizard |
| Anolis roosevelti | Culebra Island giant anole |
| Aspidoscelis labialis | Baja California whiptail |
| Bitis inornata | Plain mountain adder |
| Bradypodion setaroi | Setaro's dwarf chameleon |
| Ctenosaura melanosterna | Honduran paleate spiny-tailed iguana |
| Ctenosaura oaxacana | Oaxacan spiny-tailed iguana |
| Ctenosaura oedirhina | Roatán spiny-tailed iguana |
| Cuora aurocapitata | Yellow-headed box turtle |
| Cuora zhoui | Zhou's box turtle |
| Cyclura collei | Jamaica ground iguana |
| Elgaria panamintina | Panamint alligator lizard |
| Heosemys leytensis | Philippine pond turtle |
| Kachuga kachuga | Red-crowned roofed turtle |
| Lamprophis geometricus | Seychelles house snake |
| Leucocephalon yuwonoi | Sulawesi forest turtle |
| Lycognathophis seychellensis | Seychelles wolf snake |
| Mauremys annamensis | Annam leaf turtle |
| Opisthotropis kikuzatoi | Kikuzato's brook snake |
| Pseudocordylus langi | Lang's crag lizard |
| Testudo werneri | Negev tortoise |
| Vipera bulgardaghica | Mount Bulgar viper |
| Ambystoma lermaense | Lake Lerma salamander |
| Arthroleptis tuberosus | |
| Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti | Karl's robber frog |
| Hymenochirus feae | |
| Leptodactylodon blanci | |
| Leptodactylodon stevarti | |
| Leptopelis crystallinoron | |
| Phrynobatrachus ogoensis | |
| Werneria iboundji | |
| Acipenser persicus | Persian sturgeon |
| Aetomylaeus vespertilio | Ornate eagle ray |
| Anisotremus moricandi | Brownstriped grunt |
| Barbus comizo | Barbel |
| Carcharhinus borneensis | Borneo shark |
| Chilatherina sentaniensis | Sentani rainbowfish |
| Chiloglanis rukwaensis | Lake Rukwa suckermouth |
| Cobitis maroccana | Lamprehuela |
| Cualac tessellatus | Tessellated pupfish |
| Cyprinodon diabolis | Devil's Hole pupfish |
| Dasyatis fluviorum | Brown stingray |
| Glyphis gangeticus | Ganges shark |
| Hemipristis elongatus | Fossil shark |
| Himantura signifer | White-edge freshwater whipray |
| Horaglanis krishnai | Cave catfish |
| Ictalurus pricei | Bagre de yaqui |
| Lamna nasus | Porbeagle |
| Mycteroperca rubra | Comb grouper |
| Neoharriotta pinnata | Sicklefin chimaera |
| Noturus baileyi | Smoky madtom |
| Noturus flavipinnis | Yellowfin madtom |
| Noturus gilberti | Orangefin madtom |
| Noturus stanauli | Pygmy madtom |
| Psephurus gladius | Chinese paddlefish |
| Pteromylaeus bovinus | Bullray |
| Rhynchobatus luebberti | African wedgefish |
| Rostroraja alba | Bottlenose skate |
| Schilbe mystus | African butter catfish |
| Scyliorhinus cervigoni | West African catshark |
| Squalius keadicus | |
| Squatina aculeata | Sawback angelshark |
| Squatina oculata | Smoothback angelshark |
| Syngnathus abaster | Great pipefish |
| Urogymnus ukpam | Pincushion ray |
| Urolophus sufflavus | Yellowback stingaree |
| Urolophus viridis | Greenback stingaree |
| Xyrauchen texanus | Razorback sucker |
| Zingel asper | Apron |
| Achatina vignoniana | |
| Afrithelphusa monodosus | African red land crab |
| Ancylastrum cumingianus | Australian freshwater limpet |
| Bulinus crystallinus | |
| Doratogonus spp. | Millipedes |
| Dryococelus australis | Land lobster |
| Mecistogaster asticta | |
| Megalagrion leptodemas | Crimson hawaiian damselfly |
| Megalagrion nesiotes | Flying earwig hawaiian damselfly |
| Oecanthus laricis | Tamarack tree cricket |
| Pachnodus velutinus | |
| Palpopleura albifrons | Skimmer |
| Papilio antimachus | African giant swallowtail |
| Papilio leucotaenia | Cream-banded swallowtail |
| Papilio sjoestedti | Kilamanjaro swallowtail |
| Parides ascanius | Fluminense swallowtail |
| Phylolestes ethelae | Hispaniolan malachite |
| Speleoperipatus spelaeus | Velvet worm |
| Thersites mitchellae | Mitchell's rainforest snail |
| Tinostoma smaragditis | Fabulous green sphinx moth |
| Acacia anegadensis | Pokemeboy |
| Afzelia bipindensis | |
| Afzelia pachyloba | White afzelia |
| Aquilegia nuragica | Nuragica columbine |
| Attalea crassispatha | Carossier palm |
| Baillonella toxisperma | Moabi |
| Begonia eiromischa | Woolly-stalked begonia |
| Commidendrum robustum gummiferum | St. Helena aster tree |
| Commidendrum robustum robustum | St. Helena gumwood |
| Dacrydium guillauminii | |
| Diospyros crassiflora | Ebony |
| Dracaena ombet | Nubian dragon tree |
| Entandrophragma angolense | |
| Entandrophragma candollei | Cedar kokoti |
| Entandrophragma utile | |
| Hibiscadelphus woodii | Hau kuahiwi |
| Kokia drynarioides | Hawaiian cotton tree |
| Marojejya darianii | Palm |
| Microberlinia bisulcata | Zingana |
| Naufraga balearica | |
| Pandanus gabonensis | |
| Pilgerodendron uviferum | Cipres de las Guaitecas |
| Pritchardia limahuliensis | Loulu |
| Prunus africana | Red stinkwood |
| Sterculia oblonga | Yellow sterculia |
| Tectona philippinensis | Philippine teak |
| Terminalia ivorensis | Black afara |
| Tieghemella africana | Sapodilla |
| Tieghemella heckelii | Baku |
