About Save the Animals
Save the Animals (Sauvons les animaux) is a bilingual, sourced and dated guide to species on the brink of extinction, pointing you to the people working to save them in the field.
Our mission
To raise awareness of species on the brink of extinction, explain clearly what threatens them and what works to save them, and point everyone toward the organizations working for them.
Why this site
There is no shortage of information about endangered species. But it is often scattered, sometimes out of date, rarely dated, and mostly in English. The websites of large organizations focus mainly on their own programmes, and scientific databases are hard for the general public to use.
We wanted a site that is simple, bilingual and honest: one that says where every figure comes from and when it was checked, explains the threats without doom, shows that conservation works, and links straight to the organizations in the field.
How we work
- Verifiable sources. We rely on the IUCN Red List, published scientific studies, official reports and organizations working in the field. All our sources are cited at the bottom of each page, with a link.
- Dated figures. Each species page shows the year of the IUCN assessment, the year of the population figure we use, and the date we checked the data.
- The latest figure. When an IUCN assessment is old, we use the most recent published figure and explain any differences between sources.
- Honesty about uncertainty. When data is weak, contradictory or missing, we say so rather than picking the most dramatic number.
- Regular updates. We review species pages when the IUCN publishes new assessments and when major censuses come out.
- Corrections. Spotted an error? Email us. We check every report and correct the page, updating its date.
Our independence
- No donations collected. We take no money from the public. Donation links go directly to the organizations.
- No advertising.
- No affiliate links or commissions. The organizations we recommend pay us nothing. See how we choose them.
Photos and licences
All photos on this site are openly licensed or in the public domain. Most come from Wikimedia Commons. Each photo is credited with its author and licence, with a link to the original page.
No image is generated by artificial intelligence to depict a real animal. When no recent openly licensed photo of a species exists, we say so and use other material, such as museum specimens or pictures of its habitat.
Who we are
Save the Animals is published by Owen and Emma Saloloto, in Canada. To get in touch: [email protected].
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