Good World Games

Hawaiian Monk Seal ~ critically endangered species by HawaiianVirtualTours on Flickr.

A rare sighting of the critically endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal near Honi’s Beach.

Via Flickr:
This was a very rare sighting of a 6 year old female tagged “V17”. The Hawaiian monk seal is among the most endangered of all seal species. To raise awareness for the species’ plight, the Hawaiian monk seal was declared Hawaii’s official State Mammal in 2008. Photo taken near Honl’s Beach.

Rosa’s Anniversary Cake by savetherhino on Flickr.

In Indonesia, Sumatran rhinos survive in only three known locations (Gunung Leuser, Bukit Barisan Selatan, and Way Kambas National Park). Here Rosa the Sumatran Rhino receives a cake for the Anniversary of her first year at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra.

Learn more about Way Kambas at http://www.rhinos-irf.org/waykambas/

Lion cub and lioness snoozing by Panthera Cats on Flickr.

This photo was taken by Panthera Vice President Dr. George Schaller out on the Serengetti. Dr. Schaller is known as one of the founding fathers of the wildlife conservation field and led the world’s seminal study on lion behavior in the Serengeti in the late 1960s. Lions are severely threatened, and could be endangered soon.

Learn about the baby orangutan orphan rehabilitation centre in Indonesia. Fascinating and adorable.

Snow leopard cub amidst rocks by Panthera Cats on Flickr.

Learn how Panthera is working throughout Asia to save snow leopards like these at www.panthera.org/programs/snow-leopard/snow-leopard-program

Two-toed sloths are born with claws, which come in handy when there’s an itch you just have to scratch.

Via Wikipedia

Experts maintain that there are fewer than 20 South China tigers left in the wild, and warn that it might become extinct within the next decade. The first South China tiger born in captivity, aged 11 weeks.

Dancing penguins don’t have that much to be happy about, unfortunately.

Last year, five more species of penguins were given protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act , including the Humboldt, the yellow-eyed penguin, the white flittered penguin, the fiordland penguin, and the erect-crested penguin.

Introducing the “World’s Ugliest Dolphin”, the snubfin. Think they’re actually quite cute!

Experts estimate there only around 800 of these dolphins left in the world, confined to a small portion of Australia.