Many species around the world are endangered and as their numbers dwindle it becomes harder and harder to keep an eye on these vulnerable creatures. That’s why NASA is turning some of its satellites around, looking at Earth and its most endangered animals instead of the blackness of space.
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00:00Many species around the world are endangered, and as their numbers dwindle, it becomes harder
00:08and harder to keep an eye on these vulnerable creatures.
00:11That's why NASA is turning some of its satellites around, looking at Earth and its most endangered
00:16animals instead of the blackness of space.
00:19Specifically, NASA's eye in the sky will be tracking habitat loss, what environmental
00:23experts say is the single biggest threat to species globally.
00:26One of the first species whose habitat is being tracked are tigers.
00:30According to experts with the Wildlife Conservation Society, some 93% of all tigers have disappeared
00:35in just the last 150 years.
00:37However, new NASA data reveals there may be hope.
00:40Their observations found that in their native lands of Asia, there are still many viable
00:44empty forest tiger populations could migrate to.
00:47With conservation ecologist Eric Sanders saying about it, if these habitats had sufficient
00:51prey and were tigers able to find them, the occupied land base for tigers might increase
00:56by 50%.
00:57The team are also looking at elephant populations in Asia as well, hoping to develop a conservation
01:02corridor away from humans.