The 6S class will sponsor an animal through the World Wildlife Fund. Students should review information on tigers, rhinos, mountain gorillas, and orangutans to decide which animal to sponsor and make a vote on the class blog, including a post explaining their choice.

1. 6S this year will be sponsoring an animal with the World
Wildlife Fund [WWF].
Look through the following slides and decide which animal you
would like to sponsor. You may want to do extra research before
you make your choice, which would be a very good idea, as you
will be making a more informed decision.
Once you have decided, make your vote on the 6S Literacy blog.
You may want to write a post telling everyone why you have
made your specific choice..

4. The tiger is the biggest, the most iconic, and one of the most endangered of all cats.
Three of the nine known tiger subspecies are extinct - the Bali, Caspian, and Javan
tiger. A fourth – the South China tiger – hasn’t been seen in the wild since the 1970s.
There remaining six living sub-species of tiger – the Amur (Siberian), Bengal (Indian),
Indo-Chinese, Malayan, Sumatran and South China – still need your help to avoid
the same fate.

5. Relentless hunting for their horns and loss of their natural
habitats, has led to a catastrophic fall in rhino
numbers. Help us protect these incredible animals.
One subspecies – the southern white rhino – is a significant
conservation success story. The population has recovered
from fewer than 100 in 1895 to over 20,000 today. But sadly
there are no northern white rhinos left in the wild, and only a
handful in captivity.

6. The powerful mountain gorilla is one of four surviving gorilla subspecies. They’re found in just two isolated
populations – in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, and the Virunga volcanoes – which span the
borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Mountain gorillas generally live in groups with several females and their young, and one dominant male. Dominant
males are known as ‘silverbacks’ because they have a patch of silver hair on their back and hips – which they
develop when they’re about 12—15 years old.

7. Within the last decade alone,
orang-utan numbers have
fallen by between 30 and
50%. Help us protect these
gentle giants and their forest
habitat.
There are two species of orang-utan – the Bornean and the Sumatran. Orang-utans used to roam as far north as
southern China, and as far south as the Indonesian island of Java.
Today they’re only found on two islands – Sumatra and Borneo.