Generate a random endangered species from 54 threatened animals and plants -- each with its conservation status and where it still holds on.
This generator draws from 54 threatened species across mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, ocean life, and insects and plants -- each with its conservation status and where it still survives, from the last 10 vaquitas to the kakapo whose every individual has a name.
Every result here is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues() -- the Web Crypto API's cryptographically secure randomness -- instead of Math.random(), so it's genuinely unpredictable, not just statistically random. Learn more.
Meet a species you have never heard of before it's gone, pick a research subject for a school report, find a conservation cause worth following, or quiz a classroom on statuses and ranges. A few entries are comeback stories -- the giant panda and iberian lynx earn their place as proof it works.
Generate draws one species at random using the site's cryptographically secure randomness, never repeating the species currently shown in single-result mode. Each draw carries its IUCN-style status -- Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered -- and the Group filter narrows by branch of life.
A sample of what this generator can draw, spread evenly across the full list:
They follow the IUCN Red List tiers: Vulnerable means high extinction risk, Endangered means very high risk, and Critically Endangered means extremely high risk -- often only hundreds or dozens of individuals remaining.
Yes -- the giant panda was downlisted to Vulnerable in 2016, mountain gorillas passed 1,000 individuals, the California condor climbed from 22 birds to over 500, and the Iberian lynx from 94 cats to over 2,000. Conservation, funded and enforced, works.
The vaquita -- a small porpoise in Mexico's Gulf of California with perhaps 10 individuals left, collateral damage of illegal gillnet fishing. The Javan rhino and Hainan gibbon are close behind at under 80 each.
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