In 2012, 668 rhinos were poached in South Africa. As of January 2013 it increased to 946, these animals were being poached at a rate of 2 per day.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were a few million African elephants and approximately 100,000 Asian elephants. Today elephants are now considered endangered, there are about 450,000-700,000 African elephants and 35,000-40,000 Asian elephants.
Mountain Gorilla; Less than a 1,000 remain
Grevy Zebra; about 2,000 adults remain; once roamed across East Africa, but its population dropped from 25,000 in the 1970s to about 2,500 today.
Lion; extinct in seven African countries.
Leopards are at risk of extinction across their African and Asian range, having suffered a population decline in sub-Saharan Africa of more than 30 percent in the past 25 years, in part due to unsustainable trophy hunting by Americans. Yet due to a loophole in place since 1982, hundreds of leopard trophies per year have been imported into the United States without proper scrutiny by the federal government or scientific experts. In 2014, hunters imported 311 leopard trophies into the U.S
Humans hunted the tiger population down to just 5,000 to 7,000 individuals worldwide by the late 1990s. That was considered a dangerously low number then. By 2014, it had halved. Some estimates say fewer than 2,500 mature tigers currently remain in the wild.While tigers originally lived across Asia, from Turkey to the eastern coast of Russia, their range has now dwindled to roughly a dozen countries in East and South Asia, and as few as 3,200 tigers may be left in the wild.
Chinese Alligator This small, freshwater crocodilian species now numbers fewer than 200 in the wild Sun Bear population has declined by more than 30 percent in the past three decades due to hunting and loss of their forest habitat.
The population of wild banteng, a species of cattle native to southeast Asia, is now estimated to be somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, a decrease of more than 90 percent since the 1960s.
There are eight species of pangolins in two continents, Africa and Asia, and they are the only truly scaly mammals in the planet. Over the last 10 years, more than a million pangolins have been illegally taken from the wild to feed demand in China and Vietnam, where their meat is considered a delicacy and their scales are used in traditional medicine. Research shows that between 2011 and 2013, an estimated 117,000 to 234,000 pangolins were slaughtered for their parts.