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It is the second biggest living predator. It survives from pack ice in the Arctic, which covers the area between the Polar Sea and the North Pole. With global warming, there is less ice and unfortunately less and less for this animal.

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13Today the animal is marked on Strongly endangered species on the red list. Since 1999 there has been a breeding program. Between 2000-2006, 24 of these animals were released in to nature.

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13Today the animal is marked on Strongly endangered species on the red list. Since 1999 there has been a breeding program. Between 2000-2006, 24 of these animals were released in to nature.

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Today, it is distributed across 46 Asian and European countries - from France and Spain in the west, China and North Korea in the East until Greece and India in the South, and Norway and Russia in the North. Currently, there is approx. 50,000 of this animal worldwide.

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With its fur, burly build and 10 centimetre fat layer, the animal can protect itself from the extreme cold in the arctic where in Winter the temperature is on average minus 30 degrees celsius.

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For two million years, this animal was widespread in many places in Europe. Their fossils have been found in, for example, Spain. Today, they only live in the mountain regions of Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Northern India and the chinese provinces of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan.

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In previous centuries, the animal has been hunted because of its beautiful coat and also because it is a predator of sheep, goats and other livestock. By 1900 it had disappeared from almost all of Western and Southern Europe, but survived in the large mountainous areas such as the Pyrenees and the Alps. In Germany, the last specimens lived in the Bavarian forest.

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This is the 3rd biggest predator in Europe, their eyes are six times more light sensitive than human's. So these animals can see well in the dark. These animals will grow on average from 80cm to 130cm tall and can weigh 18kg to 22kg

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Sea pollution, shipping, more tourists and the exploration and demand for oil and gas are threatening the populations of these animals in The Arctic. This is why this animal has been in the 'at risk' category since 2006.

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The animals will be around 60cm big and weigh up to 5 kg. In zoological gardens they can live up to 14 years old but in the wild, they rarely reach this age.

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Characteristics of these animals include the short tail with a black tip, the high pointed ears, as well as so called whiskers. The colour of the coat is grey-yellow to red-yellow.

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These animals are hunted because of their fur, to process the fur into hats. Even today in the Chinese province of Yunnan, hats made from this fur are given at weddings.

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The name of the animal comes from the colour of its fur - it is red. In Chinese it is also called a 'firefox', and in Nepal its name is 'bamboo eater', because its most important food source is bamboo. Often, this animal is called a 'cat bear'.

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The adult animals can grow over 2 meters and weigh 200-600 kg.The animals fur is white in sunlight but the skin is black except the top of the nose and the pads of the feet which cover the whole body

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This animal is marked as endangered on the Red List. Today, there are less than 10,000 of these animals in the world. In the last 50 years, the number of these animals has reduced by almost 40%.

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These animals are very good swimmers and are almost pure carnivores, they spend the long winter and the early part of the year on drift ice. In this time they hunt and ensure they have fat reserves. Worldwide there are 20,000 to 25,000 of this animal.