Photographer spends two years taking pictures of animals that may soon be extinct because of us

Most of us have no idea about the endangered animals that leave on earth. Tim Flach went on adventure of 2 years, sneaking into their habitats and documenting their rare existences. His project called, Endangered, treats us with unique and exceptional look into the beautiful lives of Earth’s most threatened creatures, and gives us a strong reminder of everything we should be afraid to lose.

The endangered creatures vary from familiar ones like polar bear, snow leopard and cheetah to exotic beasts that we’d thought they only exist in fantasy films like saiga, Philippine eagle and olm salamander. The British photographer, highlights with his artwork the struggles these beautiful creatures go through to survive. Many factors are threatening their lives and cutting down their chance of survive day by day: habitat destruction, hunting, poaching and being sold into the black market. These obviously and sadly caused by humans.

Flach says:

“I wanted an array of endangered species which represented various aspects, some better and some lesser known.”

looking into the eyes of these gorgeous animals featured in Endangered, it wrenches our hearts to think that any one of them would ever be considered less worthy of life than one of us. Scroll down to see the most stunning shots from the series, and vote for the ones that took your breath away.

#1 Polar Bear

#2 Saiga

#3 Hyacinth Macaw

#4 African Elephant

#5 Philippine Eagle

#6 Iberian Lynx

#7 Cheetah With Cubs

#8 Ring Tailed Lemur

#9 Snow Leopard

#10 Ploughshare Tortoise

#11 White Bellied Pangolin

#12 Red Panda

#13 Fireflies

#14 Golden Snub Nosed Monkey

#15 Hippopotamus

#16 Red Crown Crane

#17 Pied Tamarin

#18 Shoebill

#19 Northern White Rhinoceros

#20 Giant Panda

#21 Sea Angels

#22 Proboscis Monkey

#23 Scallope Hammerhead Aggregation

#24 Blue Throated Macaw

#25 European Honey Bee

#26 Western Lowland Gorillas

#27 Indian Gharial

#28 Egyptian Vulture

#29 Yellow-Eyed Tree Frog

#30 Arabian Oryx

#31 Scimitar Oryx’s

#32 Marine Iguana

#33 Lemur Leaf Frog

#34 Military Macaw

#35 Kaiser’s Newt

#36 Beluga Sturgeon

#37 Yunan Snub Nosed Monkey

#38 Smooth Fronted Cayman

#39 Yellow Eyed Tree Frog Eggs

#40 Hooded Vulture

#41 Olm Salamander

#42 Siamese Crocodile

#43 Partula Snails

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