Photograph: Todd Pusser, NPL

Each year, 100,000 albatrosses die from the practice of long-line fishing. Find out more about this majestic bird, and what you can do to help save it.

Photograph: Dietmar Nill, NPL

Two bat species in Ebernoe Common are among the rarest mammals in the UK. Read more about the battle to save these mammals disappearing from the earth.

Photograph: Anup Shah, NPL

The chimpanzee is one of our closest living relatives, yet it is under extreme threat from human behaviour. Find out more and discover what you can do to help save it.

Photograph: Pete Cairns, NPL

Bottlenose dolphin numbers are in decline, with only 130 individuals remaining in the Moray Firth. Find out more about this species and how you can help save the dwindling numbers.

Photograph: Tony Heald, NPL

Until recently, most of the 3,000 desert elephants in the Kunene region of Namibia had been hunted for their tusks. Today the numbers are slowly rising - find out why.

Photograph: Tony Heald, NPL

Poaching for ivory has led to a huge decline in the African elephant population. Find out more about the pioneering conservation efforts helping to save this gentle giant.

Photograph: Laurent Geslin, NPL

The Ethiopian wolf population has declined by at least 25 per cent in just three years. Learn more about what's led to the drop in numbers and what's being done to tackle the problem.

Photograph: Bristol Zoo
Author: Ben Hoare

Find out how the destruction of forest on two remote islands in the Indian Ocean is leading to the extinction of one of the world's rarest bats, the Livingstone's fruit bat.

Photograph: Anup Shah, NPL

Despite sharing 97.7 per cent of their DNA with us, the western lowland gorilla is facing extinction because of human activity. Take a look at how we can save these vulnerable giants.