Elephant
In 2008, the IUCN listed the Asian elephant as endangered due to a 50% population decline over the past 60–75 years while CITES lists the species under Appendix I. Asian elephants once ranged from Syria and Iraq (the subspecies "Elephas maximus asurus"), to China (up to the Yellow River) and Java. It is now extinct in these areas, and the current range of Asian elephants is highly fragmented. The total population of Asian elephants is estimated to be around 40,000–50,000, although this may be a loose estimate. It is likely that around half of the population is in India. Although Asian elephants are declining in numbers overall, particularly in Southeast Asia, the population in the Western Ghats appears to be increasing.
Chinese alligator
The Chinese alligator lives in bodies of fresh water, inhabiting "the area of climatic transition between subtropical and temperate regions". Occurring at the base of mountains, it lives in areas where grass and shrubs are common. It was once abundant in wetlands and other larger bodies of water in the wild, such as rivers and lakes, but loss of habitat has limited it to primarily ponds and drainage ditches. Habitat loss has also forced it to live at higher elevations than it prefers, where the weather is colder and the soil is unfit for burrow digging. In one study of the alligator, crocodilian conservationist John Thorbjarnarson observed a female that had to build her nest of pine needles rather than the usual plants; the eggs in the nest died due to the pine needles not being able to warm the eggs properly. Its range is extremely restricted; as of 2015, the only places it lives in the wild are Xuancheng, Nanling County, Jing County, Wuhu, Langxi County, and Guangde County – six counties and cities in the province of Anhui. It is the only species in the family Alligatoridae that lives on a continent other than North or South America.