Animals – Worldmapper

Animal species extinct

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:21:33 +0000

Most (known of) animal species have been extinct on the territory of the United States of America, followed by French Polynesia, Mauritius, Australia and Mexico. St. Helena, New Zealand, Réunion, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Cook Island complete the top 10. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, (IUCN), 'To date, many species groups including mammals, amphibians, birds, reef building corals and conifers have been comprehensively assessed. As well as assessing newly recognized species, the IUCN Red List also re-assesses the status of some existing species, sometimes with positive stories to tell. For example, good news such as the downlisting (i.e. improvement) of a number of species on the IUCN Red List categories scale, due to conservation efforts. The bad news, however, is that biodiversity is declining. Currently there are more than 105,700 species on The IUCN Red List, with more than 28,000 species threatened with extinction, including 40% of amphibians, 34% of conifers, 33% of reef building corals, 25% of mammals and 14% of birds.'

Animal species endangered

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 23:43:46 +0000

With more than a thousand, the United States of America are leading the Red List , followed by Indonesia and Australia (both over 900 each), Mexico and Madagascar. India, Colombia, Malaysia, Philippines and China complete the top 10. The regions with the most endangered species are Africa and South-East Asia, According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, (IUCN), 'To date, many species groups including mammals, amphibians, birds, reef building corals and conifers have been comprehensively assessed. As well as assessing newly recognized species, the IUCN Red List also re-assesses the status of some existing species, sometimes with positive stories to tell. For example, good news such as the downlisting (i.e. improvement) of a number of species on the IUCN Red List categories scale, due to conservation efforts. The bad news, however, is that biodiversity is declining. Currently there are more than 105,700 species on The IUCN Red List, with more than 28,000 species threatened with extinction, including 40% of amphibians, 34% of conifers, 33% of reef building corals, 25% of mammals and 14% of birds.'

Whales caught between 2012 and 2016

tina-gotthardt — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:24:06 +0000

There were only nine countries between 2012 and 2016 allowed to catch whales, two officially doing 'commercial whaling', Norway and Iceland among those one. Japan and South Korea are fishing under the 'special permit' ruling. North America/Alaska, Canada, Russia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Greenland are whaling with a 'Aboriginal Subsistence' permit with respective catch limits. Between 2000 and 2015 Japan caught the highest number of whales, 9861 whales, consisting of Minke, Sei and Bryde's whales, closely followed by Norway with 9120 whales. Japan is the only country still catching whales in Antarctic waters, catches that have been discussed by the International Court of Justice with Australia and New Zealand intervening. Read more about this map in our blog

Chicken

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:41:32 +0000

Territory size is proportionate to the number of chicken there in 2016.

Data sources
This map uses data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (last accessed March 2018). (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Goats

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:47:29 +0000

Territory size is proportionate to the number of goats there in 2016.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Pigs

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:10:29 +0000

Most of the pigs – almost half of the total livestock - live in China, followed by the United States and Brazil. For Europe Spain and Germany are taking the lead, Nigeria on place 22 is the first African country in this ranking. Disappearing on this map are all Islamic countries of the Middle East and Northern Africa where pigs are considered ‘unclean' and pork meat is not consumed for religious reasons. Due to an increase in global demand for meat the total numbers are constantly rising, mostly in Asia and Africa, while pig numbers in Europe or North America grow slower or even stagnate. Not just numbers, also the way of pig husbandry has changed, to a very industrialised, meat production centred way of farming. Only few traditional forms of pig husbandry have survived in the industrialised world, such as organic pig farming, mostly linked to local markets. Not so in the developing countries, where half of the pigs still lives in small-scale subsistence-driven production systems. Here the omnivorous pigs are much more that just a source of meat, they are also a recipient of feed, that otherwise would go to waste.

Sheep

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:14:33 +0000

Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated, and they are raised all over the world. They are ruminants, so they need spacious areas and are not useful for industrial agriculture. Sheep are herbivores, they typically eat seeds, grass and plants. Most some sheep don’t need much water, a fact that makes them a perfect livestock for the scarce regions of the world. In Western countries they are most used for their meat and more recently also for their milk, while sheep wool plays a less important role in industrialised countries. While China leads the list of countries with sheep, the map shows a high proportion of sheep living in Australia, New Zealand and the whole African Continent. In Europe most of the sheep are living in the United Kingdom, followed by Turkey and Spain.

Turkeys

tina-gotthardt — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:13:03 +0000

Territory size is proportional to the number of turkeys living there in 2016.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.