The vaquita, endemic to the Sea of Cortez, is so rare it is believed only six individuals remain.
In Cameroon, a woman prepares to butcher a white-bellied pangolin in the alley behind her home. Long used for bushmeat and for the unproven medicinal qualities of its scales, the pangolin is the world's most trafficked non-human mammal.
The diminutive Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, the smallest primate in the world.
Captive Scottish wildcats at Wildcat Haven, Fort William, Scotland. Habitat loss and confusion over classification has led to a sharp decline in genetically pure wildcats.
The Eastern Lowland gorilla - also called Grauer's gorilla – is the largest sub-species of gorilla. With numbers far fewer than its Western Lowland relatives, this critically endangered primate lives only in a small area of the Eastern DRC.
